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Status: Proposed
Type: Generic
Category: Technology

.app is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program.

Current Applicants

The applicants are:[1]

  1. Dot App Inc., a venture from Oleksandr Kosovan's MacPaw Inc.. The application aims to provide an extension intended only for app developers and publishers, and will restrict registration accordingly.[2]
  2. Top Level Domain Holdings, .app is one of 68 applications that the company has filed for on its own behalf.[3]
  3. Radix (Webera Inc.) Brijesh Harish Joshi of is listed as the contact person. Radix applied for 31 TLDs[4]
  4. TRI Ventures, Inc., the contact person is Salil Jayant Darji
  5. Amazon, the company listed Lorna Jean Gradden as contact person
  6. STRAAT Investments (NU DOT CO LLC), The parent company of .co Internet.[5] is the contact person
  7. Donuts (Lone Maple, LLC) applied for 307 TLDs. Daniel Schindler, EVP of Marketing and sales of Donuts is the contact person in the application.
  8. Dot App LLC, the contact person for the company is Michael Daniel Jensen
  9. .APP REGISTRY INC., John Kane-VP of Corporate Services of Afilias is the contact person
  10. Famous Four Media (dot App Limited), the company filed for 61 new gTLDs including .app
  11. Merchant Law Group LLP, Brendon James Ralfe is the company's contact person
  12. Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.), Sarah Falvey, Senior Policy Analyst of Google is listed as contact person. The search engine giant applied for a total of 101 TLDs.[6]
  13. Afilias Limited, John Kane is the contact person

GAC Early Warning

The applications from Google and Amazon were both issued a GAC Early Warning from the representative of Australia and GAC Chair, Heather Dryden. The warning system is noted as a strong recommendation on behalf of national governments to the ICANN Board that a given TLD application should be denied as it stands. Applicants are encouraged to work with objecting GAC members.[7] The warning states that the applicant is "seeking exclusive access to a common generic string .. that relates to a broad market sector," which Ms. Dryden notes could have unintended consequences and a negative impact on competition.[8]

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.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Reveal Day 13 June 2012 – New gTLD Applied-For Strings
  2. ↑ DotApp, MacPaw.com
  3. ↑ gTLD Application Update 92 applications submitted, TLDH.org
  4. ↑ RadixRegistry.com
  5. ↑ Parent company of .Co Internet applies for 13 top level domains (here’s the list)
  6. ↑ Google applied for 101 new domains, full list unveiled at ICANN’s official reveal
  7. ↑ GAC Early Warning, NewgTLDS.ICANN.org Retrieved 25 Nov 2012
  8. ↑ App AU, GACweb.ICANN.org Retrieved 25 Nov 2012
  9. ↑ RadixReg. GACweb.ICANN.org Retrieved 27 Nov 2012
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