Overview
- .barcelona is a geographical top-level domain (GeoTLD) and a Community TLD delegated through ICANN's New gTLD Program.
- The TLD was proposed to represent and serve the Barcelona community, including residents and organizations with a bona fide presence in the Barcelona area.
History
- The application for .barcelona was submitted by the City Council of Barcelona as a Community Priority Application on behalf of the .barcelona community.
- Reveal Day for applied-for strings occurred on 13 June 2012.
- .barcelona was delegated to the DNS Root Zone on 08 July 2015.
- The City Council (the submitting organization) manages the TLD and acts as its registry.
Usage and Audience
- Intended community: individuals with residence in the City of Barcelona.
- Intended organizations: legal entities with a bona fide presence, direct or indirect, in the Barcelona area or in Barcelona as the capital of Catalonia.
- Positioned to serve community, geographic and civic uses tied to Barcelona.
Registration Rules
- Registrants are required to submit a statement of intent upon registration.
- A false statement of intent is grounds for termination of the domain and exclusion from future participation in the .barcelona TLD.
- After the launch phase, the validation regime transitions from pre-validation to post-validation, using statistically targeted random validation supported by an ongoing enforcement program.
Operator
Municipi de Barcelona
Whois
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domain: BARCELONA
organisation: Municipi de Barcelona
address: Pl. Sant Miquel ed. Novíssim, pl. 3a.
address: Barcelona 08002
address: Spain
contact: administrative
name: .barcelona Admin Contact
organisation: Fundació puntCAT
address: Plaça Nova 5, 7a planta
address: Barcelona 08002
address: Spain
phone: +34 936 750 354
fax-no: +34 934 672 959
e-mail: newgtlds@domini.cat
contact: technical
name: .barcelona Tech Contact
organisation: CORE Association
address: Cours de Rive 2
address: Geneva CH-1204
address: Switzerland
phone: +41 22 312 5610
fax-no: +41 22 312 5612
e-mail: dnsmaster@corenic.org
nserver: ANYCAST10.IRONDNS.NET 195.253.64.12 2a01:5b0:4:0:0:0:0:c
nserver: ANYCAST23.IRONDNS.NET 195.253.65.11 2a01:5b0:5:0:0:0:0:b
nserver: ANYCAST24.IRONDNS.NET 195.253.65.12 2a01:5b0:5:0:0:0:0:c
nserver: ANYCAST9.IRONDNS.NET 195.253.64.11 2a01:5b0:4:0:0:0:0:b
ds-rdata: 42241 10 2 950d7e77e7d64382a3c69654ae15ec70a497e6e9002d10eb1bf9c1b89f77eef7
whois: whois.nic.barcelona
status: ACTIVE
remarks: Registration information: http://www.barcelona.cat
created: 2015-06-04
changed: 2022-01-07
source: IANA
Registrars
