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As a stand-alone word, “bio” means “life” generally, and as a prefix ‘bio’ precedes dozens of words ranging from biography to bioclimatology, biodegradable, biodynamics, bioengineering, biomedical, biometrics, biosystematics, biotelemetry, etc. However, “bio” means “organic”, as in organic farming, in over 10 languages covering 52 nations. Thus, to respect the European Union's standards for 'bio' /organic food, this open TLD will have regulations in place for registrants intending to use it as a space for organic food products. The rest of the non-organic related TLD will not be regulated.<ref>[http://www.dot-bio.net/about/ About, Dot-Bio.net]</ref> | As a stand-alone word, “bio” means “life” generally, and as a prefix ‘bio’ precedes dozens of words ranging from biography to bioclimatology, biodegradable, biodynamics, bioengineering, biomedical, biometrics, biosystematics, biotelemetry, etc. However, “bio” means “organic”, as in organic farming, in over 10 languages covering 52 nations. Thus, to respect the European Union's standards for 'bio' /organic food, this open TLD will have regulations in place for registrants intending to use it as a space for organic food products. The rest of the non-organic related TLD will not be regulated.<ref>[http://www.dot-bio.net/about/ About, Dot-Bio.net]</ref> | ||
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| + | STARTING DOT has applied as a [[Community TLD|community priority applicant]], which requires that the application must demonstrate that it has the majority support of a cohesive community. It has received the official endorsements of the main real estate professional associations in the countries related to [[.immo]] (Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg) and is the official application of the real-estate community in Continental Europe. The associations and real estate portals endorsing .immo by STARTING DOT represent over 100,000 real estate businesses.<ref>[http://www.immo.com/community/ Community, IMMO.com]</ref><ref>[http://www.immo.com/hello-world/ Hello World, IMMO.com]</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 14:13, 26 October 2012
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| Type: | Privately held |
| Industry: | Registry |
| Founded: | 2011 |
| Headquarters: | Paris |
| Country: | France |
| Website: | startingdot.com |
| Key People | |
| Godefroy Jordan, CEO Guillaume Buffet, General Manager | |
STARTING DOT is a start-up registry service provider based in France, which was established in 2011. The company confirmed its applications for five new top level domain names (TLDs) representing major industries:[1]
- .archi (architecture industry)
- .bio (organic food and agricultural industry)
- .design (design industry)
- .immo (French real estate industry)
- .ski (ski sports industry), Community Application
In April 2012, the company announced that Alven Capital, 123 Venture, and a group of other Internet and media veterans from France and Germany provided a total of €1.5 million in capital funds to support the applications and operations of the five TLDs.[2]
Partnerships
STARTING DOT partnered with Adrenaline TLD in applying for the .ski TLD. Robert Rozicki, founder of Adrenaline TLD, will be responsible for developing Dot Ski, North America. In a statement, Godefroy Jordan said, "Rob has been the .ski pioneer with Adrenaline TLD and we are very proud to have him bringing .ski to the ski and domain registrar community in North America."[3]
.ski
STARTING DOT's application for .ski is a community priority application, which requires that the applicant must prove it has singular community support. Ski groups that have come out to support the organization include: The International Ski Federation, the US Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA), Alpine Canada, the Canadian Snowsports Association, France Montagnes, Fédération Française de Ski (FFS), and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).[4][5]
.bio
As a stand-alone word, “bio” means “life” generally, and as a prefix ‘bio’ precedes dozens of words ranging from biography to bioclimatology, biodegradable, biodynamics, bioengineering, biomedical, biometrics, biosystematics, biotelemetry, etc. However, “bio” means “organic”, as in organic farming, in over 10 languages covering 52 nations. Thus, to respect the European Union's standards for 'bio' /organic food, this open TLD will have regulations in place for registrants intending to use it as a space for organic food products. The rest of the non-organic related TLD will not be regulated.[6]
.immo
STARTING DOT has applied as a community priority applicant, which requires that the application must demonstrate that it has the majority support of a cohesive community. It has received the official endorsements of the main real estate professional associations in the countries related to .immo (Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Luxembourg) and is the official application of the real-estate community in Continental Europe. The associations and real estate portals endorsing .immo by STARTING DOT represent over 100,000 real estate businesses.[7][8]
References
- ↑ Starting Dot- Who We Are
- ↑ New Registry Starting Dot Announces First Round of Funding
- ↑ Starting Dot Announces Application for .Ski Top Level Domain
- ↑ The Worlds Leading Ski and Snowsports Organizations Support the Starting Dot Community Based Ski New gTLD Application, dot-ski.com
- ↑ Comment 9148, gTLDcomment.ICANN.org
- ↑ About, Dot-Bio.net
- ↑ Community, IMMO.com
- ↑ Hello World, IMMO.com