.sucks
| Status: | Proposed |
| country: | International |
| Type: | Generic |
| Category: | Commerce |
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.sucks is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program.
Applicants[edit | edit source]
- Donuts (Dog Bloom, LLC) - This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
- Momentous (Vox Populi Registry Inc.) - This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment (PIC), which can be downloaded here.
- Top Level Spectrum, Inc. (Jay Westerdal)[1]
PICs[edit | edit source]
Momentous and Donuts both submitted PICs. Donuts' lays out its protection mechanisms that are uniform across nearly all of its TLDs, while Momentous notably commits their potential .sucks registry from expert evaluation panel to identify cyberbullying, pornographic sites, and parked pages, which are then to be subject to rapid takedown.[2]
Objection[edit | edit source]
Saudi Arabia's Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) filed an objection against the TLD, on the grounds that it might also be used by pornographic sites.[3]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Sucks Status, ICANN.org
- ↑ PIC Download, gTLDresult.ICANN.org Retrieved 12 March 2013
- ↑ Saudi Arabia opposes .gay internet domain name, bbc.com