.locus
| Status: | FAILED IE, Eligible for Extended Evaluation |
| Registry Provider: | Internet Systems Consortium |
| Type: | Brand TLD |
| Priority #: | 586 - Locus Analytics LLC |
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.locus is a Brand TLD being proposed in ICANN's New gTLD Program. The applicant is Locus Analytics LLC.[1] The TLD failed its initial evaluation in June 2013 due to its responses to the financial questions in the application; it is eligible for extended evaluation.[2]
Application Details[edit | edit source]
The following is excerpted form the applicant's response to question #18:
"Locus Analytics (“Locus”) is a company that specializes in semantic information systems. Over the last dozen years, we have developed novel semantic classification systems. The 1st products are related to business and finance. Locus’ next series of products will be around the use of the upper-level domain “. Locus” and “. Impact”. Each upper-level domain be community-based upper level domains. These are upper-level domains that will be approved in a defined process that meets the objectives and standards of the upper-level domain. “.Locus” domains will be business-oriented domains that are attached with a GPS-like address that will position and relate the site in the Locus community. “. Impact” will be a social enterprise domain that will be available to those companies that are part of the global social impact community. These are the new generation of companies that are trying to make a difference by building micro-finance, water, food, housing, healthcare operations in the under-developed areas of the world.
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We intend to build a specialty top-level domain where each domain name will have a specific semantic meaning as part of a larger economic system. These domains will be community-based like many of the proposed domains. The difference is that Locus communities’ will all be semantically defined. We believe that these types of domains are what web 3.0 is all about and we intend to be a leader in that space. We believe that “. locus” we can have millions of domains."[3]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Reveal Day 13 June 2012 – New gTLD Applied-For Strings
- ↑ Four Failures and 92 Passes in Latest New gTLD Results, DomainIncite.com Published & Retrieved 17 June 2013
- ↑ Application Download, gTLDresult.ICANN.org Retrieved 18 Feb 2013