.sucks

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Status: Proposed
country: International
Registry: Vox Populi Registry Inc.
Registry Backend: GoDaddy
Type: Generic
Category: Commerce
Priority #: 614 - Top Level Spectrum, Inc.
1171 - Donuts (Dog Bloom, LLC)
1449 - Momentous (Vox Populi Registry Inc.)

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

Applicants

  1. Donuts (Dog Bloom, LLC) - This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.
  2. Momentous (Vox Populi Registry Inc.) - This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment (PIC), which can be downloaded here.
  3. Top Level Spectrum, Inc. (Jay Westerdal)[1]

PIC

Momentous and Donuts both submitted PICs. Donuts' lies out its protection mechanisms that are uniform across nearly all of its TLDs, while Momentous notably commits their potential .sucks registry from expert evaluation panel to identify cyberbullying, pornographic sites, and parked pages, which are then to be subject to rapid takedown.[2]

Objection

Saudi Arabia's Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) filed an objection against the TLD, on the grounds that it might also be used by pornographic sites.[3]

References