.wedding

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Status: Proposed
country: International
Registry: Registry Services, LLC
Registry Backend: GoDaddy
Type: Generic
Category: Lifestyle
Priority #: 130 - WhatBox? (Wedding TLD LLC)
402 - Donuts (Wild Madison, LLC)

459 - Top Level Domain Holdings
nTLDStats
Registrations: 16,523
Parked Domains: 7,044
Parked Domain %: 42.63 %
Important Dates
Delegation: 15 October 2014
General Availability: 08 April 2015

More Information: NTLDStatsLogo.png

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

Current Applicant

  1. Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. (TLDH), .wedding is one of 68 TLDs that the company has filed for on its own behalf.[1] This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.

Previous Applicants

  1. Wedding TLD LLC
  2. Donuts (Wild Madison, LLC), one of 307 TLDs applied for by Donuts. This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.

Private Auction

TLDH announced in a press release on 25 February 2014 that it has won the rights to the .wedding string in a Private Auction conducted by Applicant Auction. The sale price was not disclosed, but was over USD$2.2 Million.[2]

TLDH & $15mm Auction Funding

On February 26 2013, Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. announced that it had entered into a funding agreement worth $15 million to be used in the case of auction for a specific unnamed TLD. The investor will not receive ownership of the TLD but a share of future revenues. TLDH did not name the TLD that the funds are directed for, and it is in 11 head to head contentions and 12 featuring more than one contender.[3]

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