.website
| Status: | Proposed |
| country: | International |
| Type: | Generic |
| Category: | Technology |
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.website is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program.
Applicants
- Radix, one of 31 TLDs applied for by the company.
- Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd., it is one of 68 applications that Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. has filed for on its own behalf.[1]
- Donuts (Fern Edge, LLC), one of 307 applications submitted by the company.
GAC Early Warning
The Independent State of Samoa issued a GAC Early Warning to all three applicants, recommending that they withdraw their applications. 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.[2]
Samoa notes that it is a developing country whose income and economy is not highly diversified and fragile. Its ccTLD, .ws, has been marketed as a shorthand for "website" since 1999. The registry has over a million registrations and the profits from this have become an important revenue source. It fears that the introduction of ".website" would devastate this enterprise. It also believes that .website is confusingly similar to its .ws.[3]
References
- ↑ gTLD Application Update 92 applications submitted, TLDH.org
- ↑ GAC Early Warning, NewgTLDS.ICANN.org Retrieved 26 Nov 2012
- ↑ Website WS, GACweb.ICANN.orgRetrieved 27 Nov 2012