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Featured Article, February 8, 2022

.booking is a TLD from ICANN's New gTLD Program that was delegated on July, 19, 2016 to Booking.com B.V., based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.^[1] The administrator is MarkMonitor and technical support is run by GoDaddy Registry.^[2] It is a “single registrant TLD” (Article 4.5 of ICANN's Registry Agreement). This means that all domain name registrations in the .booking TLD are for booking.com's exclusive use and that booking.com cannot sell, distribute or transfer control or use of any of them to any non-affiliate third party.^[3]

In the News

In the last week of January 2022, several commentaries and reports were published on the topic of raising awareness and taking action against DNS Abuse.
On February 2, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit decided to reject Vox Populi registry's gTLD Trademark registration of .sucks.
The ICANN 73 Prep Week Schedule was announced on Monday, February 7. Registration is open, and necessary to view schedule details.

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[1] Reveal Day 13 June 2012 – New gTLD Applied-For Strings

[2] Booking TLD Delegation Record, IANA

[3] .Booking, gTLD Zone

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