.fish
| Status: | Contract Signed |
| Type: | Generic |
| Category: | Sport |
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.fish is a proposed top level domain name (TLD) to ICANN's New gTLD Program.
Current Applicants
- Donuts (Fox Woods, LLC)- A start-up company that filed for a total of 307 domain name strings ang invested $56 million just for application fees. Demand Media will provide back-end registry services. [1] This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
Private Auction
Donuts won in a private auction the right to .fish, beating out fellow applicant Dot Club LLC. The auction was managed by Innovative Auctions and the winning bid was not disclosed.[2]
Previous Applicants
- Dot Club LLC- The company's application is associated with WhatBox?, owner and operator of several domain name resellers. Mr. Erik Ludwick, CEO of Whatbox? is listed as the main contact person in the application. [3]
Contract Signed
On 12 December 2013 Donuts received a Registry Agreement signed by ICANN for .fish after passing all the required processes needed to become a Registry Operator for the string.[4]
References
- ↑ Donuts Inc eye popping list of 307 new top-level domains
- ↑ Donuts wins 3 New gTLD Auctions, Domain Incite Retrieved 24 Oct 2013
- ↑ WhatBox?
- ↑ Ten More New gTLDs Get ICANN Contracts, DomainIncite Retrieved 13 Dec 2013