.design
| Status: | Proposed |
| Type: | Generic |
| Category: | Industry |
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.design is a gTLD proposal submitted to ICANN's new gTLD expansion program.
Applicants edit
Several companies submitted their applications to serve as registry operator for the TLD including: [1]
- Starting Dot, a start-up registry company based in France that has submitted 5 TLD applications[2][3]
- Top Level Design, submitted 10 total applications. The company partnered with CentralNic to provide back-end registry services.
- STRAAT Investments, the parent company of .co Internet submitted its applications for 13 domain name strings including .design. The company partnered with Neustar to become its back-end registry service provider. [4]
- Top Level Domain Holdings Limited- The company filed 68 new gTLDs for its own behalf. Minds + Machines will provide back-end registry services. [5]
- Black Avenue, LLC- (Donuts) filed for 307 new gTLDs under different company names, Black Avenue is one of them. The company's back-end registry service provider is Demand Media.[6]
- Uniregistry, Corp.- It is one of the 54 new gTLDs filed by the company. [7]
- BET Inc.- The company is based in Japan and John Kane of Afilias is the main contact person.
- Design Trend Registry Inc.- (Momentous), submitted 4 total applications.The company is based in Canada and Aimee Deziel is the contact person. [8]
References edit
- ↑ Reveal Day 13 June 2012 – New gTLD Applied-For Strings
- ↑ Our Top Level Domains-.design
- ↑ Another contention battle confirmed as Starting Dot reveals five gTLD bids
- ↑ Parent company of .Co Internet applies for 13 top level domains (here’s the list)
- ↑ Top Level Domain Holdings Becomes Largest New gTLD Applicant To Date Applying For 68 Strings
- ↑ Donuts Inc eye popping list of 307 new top-level domains
- ↑ Uniregistry Corp. applies for 54 new top-level domains...
- ↑ Momentous’ .sucks bid “about creating dialogue”, DomainIncite.com