.property
| Status: | Delegated |
| country: | International |
| Type: | Generic |
| Category: | Real Estate |
| Priority #: | 309 - Uniregistry, Corp. 1160 - Top Level Domain Holdings |
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.property is a GTLD that was proposed in ICANN's New gTLD Program. The successful applicant and now Registry Operator is Uniregistry.
Successful Applicant[edit | edit source]
- Uniregistry Corp, one of 54 applications submitted by Frank Schilling's company.
Previous Applicants[edit | edit source]
- Donuts (Steel Goodbye, LLC), one of 307 TLDs applied for by Donuts. This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
- Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd., It is one of 68 applications that Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. has filed for on its own behalf.[1] This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
Both Donuts and TLDH withdrew their applications after an April 2014 private auction that was administered by Applicant Auction, in which Uniregistry won the rights to the string.[2]
TLDH & $15mm Auction Funding[edit | edit source]
On February 26 2013, Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. announced that it had entered into a funding agreement worth $15 million to be used in the case of auction for a specific unnamed TLD. The investor will not receive ownership of the TLD but a share of future revenues. TLDH did not name the TLD that the funds are directed for, and it is in 11 head to head contentions and 12 featuring more than one contender.[3]
Contract Signed[edit | edit source]
On 22nd May 2014, the Uniregistry received a Registry Agreement signed by ICANN for .property after passing the Initial Evaluation.[4]
Delegation and Availability[edit | edit source]
.property was delegated to the Root Zone of the DNS on the 16th August, 2014, completing the successful application for the string.[5]
Sunrise[edit | edit source]
The Registry announced that the Sunrise Period for the string would begin on the 3rd September 2014 and end on the 3rd November 2014.[6]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ gTLD Application Update 92 applications submitted, TLDH.org
- ↑ Millions spent on New gTLDs as 11 contention sets settled, DomainIncite Retrieved 01 May 2014
- ↑ TLDh Gets 15 Million for A Single Top Level Domain Name Auction, DomainNameWire.com Published and Retrieved 26 Feb 2013
- ↑ Registry Agreements, ICANN.org Retrieved 05 December 2014
- ↑ ICANN delegated strings Retrieved 5th December 2014.
- ↑ TLD Startup Information, ICANN.org Retrieved 5th December 2014