Full info forLINK
| Application ID | 1-855-72194 |
| Status | IE Pass |
| Prioritization Number | 534 |
| TLD (#13) | LINK |
| IDN Translation (#14b) | -- |
| Applicant (#1) | Uniregistry, Corp. |
| Website (#5) | http://www.uniregistry.com |
| Application Type | |
| Type | Standard |
| Contested | no |
| Contested Numbers | 1 |
| GAC Early Warning | no |
| Cultural, Linguistic or Religious | no |
| dotBrand | no |
| Trademark Class A | class 41 (education, entertainment, sporting, cultural) |
| Trademark Class B | class 35 (advertising, business admin, consultancy) |
| Trademark Class C | |
| Industry Keyword | generic |
| Remark | The creation of .LINK will create competition in the namespace and allow registrants to shorten their existing website name with a snappy and memorable marketing identity and marketing tool. |
| Availability Data | |
| Sunrise Period: | from2014-01-27 to2014-03-28 |
| Landrush Period: | fromunknown tounknown |
| GoLive: | 2014-04-15 |
| Registration Policy | |
| Restricted | no |
| Restrictions | |
| Backend Provider | ISC |
| Registry Website | |
| Keyword | |
| Keyword | yes |
| English Meaning | -- |
| Appeal Ranking | 4 |
| Appeal Remark | If marketed well. Broad, generic, and easily identifiable. |
| English | yes |
| Spanish | no |
| Portuguese | no |
| French | no |
| Italian | yes |
| German | no |
| Dutch | no |
| Swedish | no |
| Danish | yes |
| Mandarin | no |
| 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) | Bret Alan Samuel Fausett |
| Title (#6) | President |
| e-mail (#6) | bret@internet.pro |
| Secondary Contact | |
| Name (#7) | Mr. Frank Taylor Schilling |
| Title (#7) | Managing Director |
| e-mail (#7) | contact@uniregistry.com |
| Mission / Purpose (#18a) | |
| THE .LINK TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN Links are the building blocks of the World Wide Web. If you are reading this text in a browser, a link likely brought you here. ʺLinksʺ and ʺlinkingʺ have entered the worldwide vocabulary as the way to connect on the Internet. Links make navigation possible. Uniregistry intends to take this core building block of the web and allow registrants to label their content with the clear and simple word ʺLinkʺ. The creation of .LINK will create competition in the namespace and allow registrants to shorten their existing website name with a snappy and memorable marketing identity and marketing tool. Whether providing a source for information or an online portal for sales, .LINK will be a dedicated, neutrally-operated registry platform for registrants worldwide. For a significant number of registrants, the most important factor in labeling their content is having a semantically valuable second-level domain name, typically a generic single-word or two-word combination. For these registrants, who have seen the names they would find most desirable previously registered in legacy top-level domains such as .COM, .NET and .INFO, the new .LINK will provide a strong and memorable alternative to the right of the dot. Historically, the power of domains names has been at the second-level. Generic words and phrases are powerful labels when the correspond directly to the information, goods or services described on the associated website. While niche top-level domains with strong semantic meaning will be one important development in the future of naming for Internet-based resources, Uniregistry believes that registrants will continue to benefit from broad, all encompassing namespaces like .LINK. .LINK 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 registrations for the purpose of specialized content. The registry will strive to bring value to both the users seeking information 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 .LINK top-level domain and the companies, organizations, and individuals choosing to register .LINK 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 .LINK top-level domain. The mission and purpose of Uniregistryʹs .LINK gTLD is to be the pre-eminent general and generic Top Level Domain (GTLD) choice for registrants seeking a memorable, generic top-level domain for the registration of their Second Level Domain (SLD) name. We want registrants in .LINK 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 .LINK 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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