.flowers

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Status: Proposed
Registry: XYZ.COM LLC
Registry Backend: CentralNic
Type: Generic
Category: Lifestyle
Priority #: 237 - Donuts (Fern Willow, LLC)
481 - Top Level Domain Holdings
1037 - Uniregistry, Corp.
1715 - Piper Ventures, LLC

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

Applicants

  1. Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd.It is one of 68 applications filed by the company on its own behalf.[1]
  2. Donuts (Fern Willow, LLC)- This is one of the 307 new gTLD application filed by the company. Donuts created Fern Willow, LLC to specifically apply for the .flower string. Daniel Schindler, co-founder and EVP for Marketing & Sales, is the main contact person in the application. [2]
  3. Uniregistry, Corp.- The company applied for 54 new gTLDs. [3]
  4. Piper Ventures, LLC- Its application was submitted by FairWinds Partners, a gTLD consultancy firm headed by managing partners Joshua Borne and Phil Lodico.

Piper Ventures, LLC

The application from Piper Ventures, LLC was 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.[4]

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.[5]

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