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ICANN Reveals New TLD Application List
Eighteen months after first announcing expansion of the TLD space, ICANN has published the list of new gTLDs that have been applied for. A cursory glance reveals that.app was pretty popular, with 13 applications. Now begins the seven month objection period (but you have to be a large organization to lodge any). angry tapir writes in with info on how duplicate applications will be resolved. From the article: "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has released statistics about the applications for new top-level domains — so-called 'dot word' domains along the lines of .web and .bank ... Two hundred and thirty of the domains proposed by applicants will become the subject of ICANN's dispute resolution process — which involves an attempt among applicants for the same domain to come to a joint arrangement, followed by an auction if that's unsuccessful. There were 751 conflicting applications for domains in total, which in many cases are likely to involve generic suffixes like .secure."
Nope - he is a squatter for a new squatting company called Donuts!
http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Daniel_Schindler
http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Donuts
Or you go to the website of the email address: http://donuts.co/
From their Team page:
Dan Schindler
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing
From their about us page:
Donuts is a domain name registry bringing variety and choice to Internet naming.
The company was founded by long-standing industry executives with experience in registry and registrar operations and industry regulation, and who have successfully launched top-level domains (TLDs), built industry-leading companies, and brought value and choice to the domain name marketplace.
Donuts has applied for more than 300 TLDs and intends to secure and operate each. The company is well-resourced by substantial funding from multi-billion dollar private equity and venture capital funds.
Looking at their investors, they have a lot of VC money. Looks like a startup trying to cash in on this. Though, it could be looked at in another light, that they are trying to provide a multitude of TLDs for people to use.
A news story about the company: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/seattle-area-startup-raised-100m-series-financing/
They have $100 million in funding.
Its not what it is, its something else.
They are all for Google. Look at the email addresses.
APP 13 applications
HOME 11
INC 11
ART 10
SHOP 9
LLC 9
BOOK 9
BLOG 9
MUSIC 8
MOVIE 8
DESIGN 8
Some big TLD squatter activity from:
donuts.co - 307 TLDs
famousfourmedia.com - 60 TLDs
Google wants 93 TLDs (including some legit trademarks)