.country
| Status: | Proposed |
| Type: | Generic |
| Category: | Culture |
| Priority #: | 664 - Top Level Domain Holdings |
.country is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program.
Current Applicants
- Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd.- It is one of 68 applications that the company has filed on its own behalf.[1] This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
- Uniregistry, Corp.- The company applied for 54 new TLDs. [2]
Partnership
In April 2013, the two applicants, Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. and Uniregistry announced that they had struck a deal to enter into a joint partnership to run the .country TLD. It was one of the first major partnerships of this kind between portfolio applicants. Both companies will have a 50% equity stake in a new company. Under the conditional heads of terms for the proposed joint venture, either Uniregistry or TLDH will withdraw its application and, once the surviving applications is approved by ICANN, the authority to operate .country will be transferred to the new joint venture. The transfer will require ICANN approval, which the directors of the Company fully expect to be forthcoming.[3]