Status: Proposed
Type: Generic
Category: Technology

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.blog is a proposed new TLD in ICANN's new gTLD expansion program. The .blog TLD is expected to be one of the most contested new TLDs.

Current Applicants edit

  1. Primer Nivel, partnering with Qinetics for registry services, CommunityDNS for DNS services, and NCC Group for data escrow.[1][2]
  2. Personals TLD Inc. (Radix), partnering with ARI Registry Services for backend registry functioning. Radix has applied for 31 new gTLDs.[3][4]
  3. Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd., using its own Minds + Machines subsidiary. Blog is one of 68 applications that the company has filed on its own behalf.
  4. Top Level Design, submitted 10 total applications.
  5. Afilias, The company applied for a total of 305 new gTLDs. [5]
  6. BET Inc., John Kane of Afilias is listed as the contact person.
  7. Charleston Road Registry Inc. (Google), The search engine giant applied for 76 new gTLDs under this company name. [6]
  8. Donuts (Corn Shadow, LLC), the company applied for .blog under this company name. Donuts applied for a total of 307 new gTLDs and invested $56 million just for application fees. [7]
  9. Merchant Law Group LLP, Mr. Brendon James Ralfe is the main contact person for the company

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