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| Application ID | 1-845-38175 |
| Status | IE Pass |
| Prioritization Number | 1468 |
| TLD (#13) | FREE |
| IDN Translation (#14b) | -- |
| Applicant (#1) | Uniregistry, Corp. |
| Website (#5) | http://www.uniregistry.com |
| Application Type | |
| Type | Standard |
| Contested | yes |
| Contested Numbers | 5 |
| GAC Early Warning | no |
| Cultural, Linguistic or Religious | no |
| dotBrand | no |
| Trademark Class A | class 35 (advertising, business admin, consultancy) |
| Trademark Class B | |
| Trademark Class C | |
| Industry Keyword | sales |
| Remark | .FREE will serve Internet users as a clear, specialized, and semantically meaningful name for a wide variety of individuals and businesses. Whether used for coupons, downloads or promotions, .FREE will convey the kind of content available from any publisher. |
| Availability Data | |
| Sunrise Period: | fromunknown tounknown |
| Landrush Period: | fromunknown tounknown |
| GoLive: | unknown |
| Registration Policy | |
| Restricted | no |
| Restrictions | |
| Backend Provider | ISC |
| Registry Website | |
| Keyword | |
| Keyword | yes |
| English Meaning | -- |
| Appeal Ranking | 5 |
| Appeal Remark | Broad and generic, but with identifiable meaning |
| English | yes |
| Spanish | no |
| Portuguese | no |
| French | yes |
| Italian | no |
| German | no |
| Dutch | no |
| Swedish | no |
| Danish | no |
| Mandarin | yes |
| Russian | no |
| Location | |
| Region | Europe |
| Country | Cayman Islands |
| Community (#19) | -- |
| Geographic (#21a) | -- |
| Geographic Category | -- |
| IDN | |
| IDN (#14) | No |
| A-label (#14a) | -- |
| Translation (#14b) | -- |
| Script Code (#14d) | -- |
| Allows ASCII | yes |
| Applicant | |
| Applicant (#1) | Uniregistry, Corp. |
| Website (#5) | http://www.uniregistry.com |
| Applicant Address (#2) | 3-110 Governors Square 1361 GT Grand Cayman Grand Cayman KY1-1108 Cayman Islands [KY] |
| Applicant Phone (#3) | +13457496263 |
| Applicant Fax (#4) | +13457466263 |
| Legal Form (#8) | Exempted Corporation |
| Exchange Symbol (#9a) | |
| Parent Company (#9b) | |
| Joint Venture Partners (#9c) | |
| Primary Contact | |
| Name (#6) | Mr. Frank Taylor Schilling |
| Title (#6) | Managing Director |
| e-mail (#6) | contact@uniregistry.com |
| Secondary Contact | |
| Name (#7) | Bret Alan Samuel Fausett |
| Title (#7) | President |
| e-mail (#7) | bret@internet.pro |
| Mission / Purpose (#18a) | |
| THE .FREE TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN For many goods and services, including purely digital works, free is the best possible price. Whether used to label promotional giveaways, advertising subsidized downloads, or open source software, ʺfreeʺ can be the most important factor in a userʹs decision to try something new. .FREE will serve Internet users as a clear, specialized, and semantically meaningful name for a wide variety of individuals and businesses. Whether used for coupons, downloads or promotions, .FREE will convey the kind of content available from any publisher. New top-level domains represent the future of naming for Internet-based resources. For a significant number of registrants and users, .FREE will be the most accurate description of the content of the works or services a registrant might provide, or a user might seek, online. DNS-based addressing brings with it unique advantages for branding Internet-based resources with semantic meaning and easily communicable and remembered labels. Domain Names are mnemonic devices, designed to help users remember and invoke the ʺlocationʺ of web sites, email servers, and the like (as opposed to having to remember IP addresses). The addition of many new, semantically meaningful, TLDs will enhance this mnemonic function, helping users to discover pertinent resources, differentiate among stored links, and remember how to reach sites they have visited before. Top-level domains with specific semantic meaning, like .FREE, will thrive when operated by a neutral registry-services provider like Uniregistry. A neutral registry does not provide preferential registration opportunities to any particular market participant, create anti-competitive rules that prevent domain name registration by competitors, or become so deeply involved in the target market that its presence as the registry services provider creates the appearance of impropriety or bias. Uniregistry always will act as a neutral services provider for .FREE. A specialized top-level domain string, like .FREE, immediately conveys the purpose for which the user is seeking to access a site. Registrants who might get lost in a larger, undifferentiated TLD, and who seek to convey the specific purpose of the site or services, or who are unable to find a satisfactory SLD within existing TLDs, will find it easier to reach potential users. .FREE will be a specialty gTLD, with a flat pricing structure and fixed renewal costs, with no material price increases for the first five years. This moderately priced namespace is designed to offer registrants an attractive, competitive registration alternative or complement to existing registratiaons for the purpose of specialized content. The registry will strive to bring value to both the users seeking to provide free goods and services and the registrants who are offering that information by providing directory services, traffic-generation toolkits, and search-related functionality from central registry-operated resources designed to promote the .FREE top-level domain and the companies, organizations, and individuals choosing to register .FREE names. The registry will implement safeguards to intellectual property interests, while fostering socially and commercially productive growth of its name-space for registrants, stakeholders, and Internet users. ABOUT UNIREGISTRY Uniregistry Corp. is a new venture formed by established domain name industry veterans to serve as the delegated registry services provider for the .FREE top-level domain. The mission and purpose of Uniregistryʹs .FREE gTLD is to be the pre-eminent general and generic Top Level Domain (GTLD) choice for registrants seeking to provide no cost goods and services or promotional items through the use of a Second Level Domain (SLD) name. We want registrants in .FREE to build their Internet services on a platform designed for long-term security, stability, and predictability in Internet naming. We will provide a sound foundation for registrants and their registrars by offering world-class technical infrastructure, excellence in organizational management, and low-cost, predictable pricing. Consistent with the policies defined by ICANNʹs original Consensus Policy, ICP-1, that GTLD registries ʺare trustees for the delegated domain, and have a duty to serve the community,ʺ we believe that the registry should be managed both for the benefit of the individuals and companies that will choose to register domain names as well as Internet users worldwide. The honor of serving these constituents carries with it the obligation to work closely with ICANN, its component bodies and supporters, governments, and the registrants that will choose a .FREE domain name for their Internet identity. Uniregistry founders have a rich history of service to domain name registrants and have channeled their efforts and long-standing culture of service into this application. Their vision for serving Uniregistryʹs registrants and users and the broader Internet Community is to: - Establish and execute against high technical standards for registry reliability, security, and stability; - Bring transparency and neutrality to all registry policies, rules, pricing, and processes; - Provide increased registration choices and functionality to registrants; - Research and enable technical achievements in the domain name system (ʺDNSʺ) to foster the development of new services and enhanced security; and - Put the domain name registrantʹs and end-usersʹ interests in a secure, stable, and predictable service at the heart of all its efforts. Uniregistry plans to succeed by offering the benefit of domain name selection, at low fixed costs, to a wide spectrum of specialized interests among the potential registrant population worldwide. We believe that a variety of niche market gTLDs, each serving its focused group of registrants will create a stable foundation for a new registry and create material pricing competition for the benefit of all registrants. Registry operations will be performed by Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. (ʺISCʺ). ISC is the worldʹs preeminent expert in implementation and operation of the Domain Name System and related technologies. ISCʹs domain name software is the reference standard against which all other domain name systems are measured. ISC has been a vanguard in the expansion of the Internet. ISC has been, and continues to be, one of the worldʹs most important organizations entrusted to provide the Internetʹs essential infrastructures, deeply involved in the development of DNS, DNSSEC, IPv6, DHCP, and BIND. ISC operates the F-root server, one of the 13 root server complexes on the Internet. Since shortly after its founding in 1994, ISC has maintained 100% up-time for F-root and today the servers that implement F-root process approximately 25% of the Internetʹs root traffic. ISC has one of the worldʹs largest operational deployments of DNSSEC. Members of ISCʹs team are among the small group of trusted holders of global master DNSSEC key components. |
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