.dog
| Status: | Proposed |
| Registry: | Donuts |
| Registry Backend: | Donuts |
| Type: | Generic |
| Category: | Lifestyle |
| Priority #: | 110 - Top Level Domain Holdings 1599 - Donuts (Koko Mill, LLC) 1806 - Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.) |
| nTLDStats | |
| Registrations: | 15,670 |
| Parked Domains: | 7,309 |
| Parked Domain %: | 46.64 % |
| Important Dates | |
| Delegation: | 29 April 2015 |
| General Availability: | 19 August 2015 |
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.dog is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program.
Applicants
- Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd.-It is one of 68 applications that the company has filed for on its own behalf.[1]
- Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.) applied for 101 new gTLDs under this company name.[2]
- Donuts (Koko Mill, LLC), filed for 307 new gTLDs each under different company names. [3]
TLDH & $15mm Auction Funding
On February 26 2013, Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. announced that it had entered into a funding agreement worth $15 million to be used in the case of auction for a specific unnamed TLD. The investor will not receive ownership of the TLD but a share of future revenues. TLDH did not name the TLD that the funds are directed for, and it is in 11 head to head contentions and 12 featuring more than one contender.[4]