.media
| Status: | Delegated |
| Country: | International |
| Type: | Generic |
| Category: | Media |
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.media is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program. The proposed Donuts application succeeded and was delegated to the Root Zone on 11 April 2014.[1]
Applicants
- Donuts (Grand Clen, LLC) - This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
Previous Applicants
- Tucows - WITHDRAWN in July 2013.[2] It withdrew its applications weeks after Uniregistry, due to a buy-out by Donuts. Apparently, Tucows had cut its own deal to remove Uniregistry from the contention set; Uniregistry CEO, Frank Schilling, remarked that he would never have struck the deal with Tucows had he known that it would in turn cut its own deal with Donuts.[3]
- Uniregistry, Corp.[4]
Deal between Tucows and Donuts
The Donuts buy-out of .media and .marketing from Tucows was the subject of a comedic video posted to OpenSRS's YouTube channel, featuring both Elliot Noss and Jonathon Nevett:
Contract Signed
On 06 March 2014, Donuts received a Registry Agreement signed by ICANN for .media after passing all the required processes needed to become a Registry Operator for the string.[5]
Delegation and Availability
.media was delegated to the Root Zone of the DNS on 11 April, 2014, completing the successful application for the string.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Delegated Strings, ICANN.org Retrieved 15 April 2014
- ↑ 104 New gTLD Passes One failure Three Withrdrawals, DomainIncite.comPublished 27.7.13
- ↑ Uniregistry Not happy About Donuts Tucows Deal, DomainIncite.comPublished & retrieved 6 Aug 2013
- ↑ Media Status, ICANN.org
- ↑ Registry Agreements, ICANN.org Retrieved 15 April 2014