.group
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Status: | Delegated |
Registry: | Donuts |
Registry Backend: | Donuts |
Type: | Generic |
Category: | Commerce |
nTLDStats | |
Registrations: | 92,975 |
Parked Domains: | 48,530 |
Parked Domain %: | 52.2 % |
Important Dates | |
Delegation: | 08 August 2015 |
General Availability: | 08 June 2016 |
More Information: |
.group is a new gTLD delegated to the [Root Zone]] in ICANN's New gTLD Program on 8 August 2015. [[Donuts is the registry provider.
Current Applicant
- Donuts (Romeo Town, LLC), one of 307 applications. This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
Previous Applicants
- Amazon
- Top Level Design, .group is one of 10 applications submitted by the company.[1]
- STRAAT Investments (NU DOT CO LLC), the parent company of .co Internet has applied for 13 total TLDs.[2]
- Tucows - This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
Private Auction
In July 2014 Donuts won the rights to the .group string after a Private auction with the other 4 applicants. As with many of the private auctions conducted for New gTLDs, the winning bid was not disclosed.[3]