| Status: | Passed EE |
| Registry Provider: | Afilias |
| Type: | Brand TLD |
| Priority #: | 125 - McKinsey Holdings, Inc. |
.mckinsey is a Brand TLD being proposed in ICANN's New gTLD Program. The applicant is McKinsey Holdings, Inc.[1]
In May 2013, the application failed initial evaluation due to responses on the financial questions in the application. [2] The applicant requested and passed Extended Evaluation in December 2013.[3]
Application Excerpt
The following is excerpted from the applicant´s response to question #18:
"McKinsey Holdings, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McKinsey & Company, Inc. They are the trusted advisor and counselor to many of the most influential businesses and institutions in the world. McKinsey & Company, Inc. serves more than 80 percent of Fortune magazine’s list of the Most Admired Companies. McKinsey & Company, Inc. is a global organization, with more than 90 offices in more than 50 countries. McKinsey & Company, Inc. employees speak over 120 languages and represent over 100 nationalities. McKinsey & Company, Inc. operates as one firm, bringing the best experts from around McKinsey and from the McKinsey & Company, Inc. external network to each engagement. ..
Thus, Applicant is seeking the proposed .mckinsey gTLD to operate as a restricted, exclusively-controlled TLD[.]"[4]
References
- ↑ Reveal Day 13 June 2012 – New gTLD Applied-For Strings
- ↑ Two Failures Among Latest 44 New gTLD results, DomainIncite.com Published 17 May; Retrieved 22 May 2013
- ↑ The latest New gTLD Passes and Signings Retrieved 16 Dec 2013
- ↑ Application Details, gTLDresult.ICANN.orgRetrieved 8 Feb 2013