Status: Proposed
Category: Technology

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.hosting is a proposed new gTLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program

Current Applicant

  1. Uniregistry, Corp., the company owned by domainer Frank Schilling has applied for 54 new TLDs.[1]

Previous Applicants

  1. Radix (Dottransfer Inc.), a subsidiary of the Directi group that was created to apply for 31 new TLDs
  2. Donuts (Trixy Birch, LLC), has applied for 307 TLDs. This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.

Radix withdrew after a private auction that was administered by Applicant Auction in April 2014, which Uniregistry won.[2]

Radix

Radix received a GAC Early Warning as an entire applicant, where each one of the applicants was flagged by the U.S. Government. This seems to be the only time a portfolio applicant had all of their applications warned. The issue does not deal with the technical capabilities or thematic content of their applications, but rather the inclusion of an email address associated with the US' Federal Bureau of Investigation. It seems that Radix included correspondence with this address as a recommendation with each of their applications.[3]

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