.furniture
| Status: | Proposed |
| country: | International |
| Registry: | Donuts |
| Registry Backend: | Donuts |
| Type: | Generic
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.furniture is a proposed top level domain name (TLD to the New gTLD Program of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
Applicants
- Donuts (Lone Fields, LLC)- The company raised $100 million capital from numerous investors including multi-billion dollar venture capital and private equity funds and top-tier bank in support of its application for 307 new gTLDs including .furniture. Its plan is to offer the TLD internationally to provide a unique identity for all parties engage in furniture industry to utilize the internet for economic growth. The company partnered with Demand Media to provide back-end registry solutions and AusRegistry to provide DNS services and [[DNSSEC] Extensions. [1]
- Uniregistry, Corp. - Frank Schilling, a domain name investor formed the company and invested $60 million to apply for 54 new gTLDs including .furniture. The company partnered with the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) to provide back-end registry solutions. The company plans to operate the .furniture domain name space neutrally and considers it as a specialty TLD that provides a unique online space for entities engage in furniture business and interested creating identity using the .furniture TLD. [2]