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    • .college

    Generic top-level domainsIDNDNSSEC

    Overview

    • .college is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) intended for colleges, higher-education related organizations, students, alumni and supporting businesses.
    • The string was delegated to the DNS Root Zone on 10 April 2014. The registry's public website is go.college.
    • Registry: XYZ.COM LLC (operations in Las Vegas, NV and Santa Monica, CA). Back-end registry services are provided by CentralNic. DNSSEC is enabled for the TLD.

    History

    • Delegation to the DNS root zone: 10 April 2014.
    • Launch timeline:
      • Trademark-exclusive sunrise phase: March 17, 2015 – April 17, 2015.
      • Landrush period (exclusively for educational institutions): April 20, 2015 – September 22, 2015.
      • Global general availability: September 29, 2015.
    • Operator and key people:
      • Operated by XYZ.COM LLC. CentralNic provides back-end registry operations.
      • Daniel Negari is listed among key people involved with XYZ operations.

    Usage and Audience

    • Intended users and common use cases include:
      • Educational: universities and departments (notably outside the U.S.), college athletics, non-accredited institutions, college prep, online education.
      • Corporate: recruitment, training & development, businesses in college towns.
      • Individuals: faculty, staff, students, alumni, campus organizations, forums, personal portfolios/CVs, and researchers publishing materials.
    • Examples of how .college is positioned:
      • Short, memorable URLs for departments, programs and campus services (e.g., BostonResearch.College, BostonEngineering.College).
      • Employer and corporate training or recruitment landing pages (e.g., LeadershipTraining.College or NYCInternships.College).
    • Adoption and reach:
      • .College domains have been registered in 70 countries (as of March 9, 2016).
      • 91 premium names registered as of May 8, 2017.

    Registration Rules

    • Namespace: Open and unrestricted — .college is available to the general public (unlike .edu which is restricted).
    • Sunrise and landrush details:
      • A trademark-exclusive sunrise phase ran from March 17 to April 17, 2015.
      • A landrush period for educational institutions ran April 20 to September 22, 2015.
      • During the landrush, XYZ announced waivers of application fees and the first year's registration fee for Trademark Clearinghouse-registered companies and for educational institutions.
    • Technical and policy notes:
      • Back-end registry services by CentralNic.
      • DNSSEC: yes.

    Notable Cases or Examples

    • Notable registered names cited include: Oxford.College, Princeton.College, Columbia.College, Harvard.College, MIT.College, Yale.College, Duke.College.
    • Specific end-user examples and uses:
      • Kellogg.College — used by Oxford University for Kellogg College (graduate school).
      • Trojans.College — adopted by the University of Southern California athletics program.
      • SEDA.College — an English language school in Dublin.
      • Vanier.College — used by Vanier College (including mapped subdomains such as maps.vanier.college, itss.vanier.college, walk.vanier.college).
    • Examples of premium names reported: EC.College, After.College, Dorms.College, Grades.College, Into.College, Clubs.College.

    Operator

    XYZ.COM LLC

    Whois

    % IANA WHOIS server
% for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org
% This query returned 1 object

domain:       COLLEGE

organisation: XYZ.COM LLC
address:      4425 Spring Mountain Rd., Suite 2
address:      Las Vegas NV 89102
address:      United States of America (the)

contact:      administrative
name:         General Counsel
organisation: XYZ.COM LLC
address:      4425 Spring Mountain Rd., Suite 2
address:      Las Vegas NV 89102
address:      United States of America (the)
phone:        +1.7027632191
e-mail:       hello@xyz.com

contact:      technical
name:         CTO
organisation: CentralNic
address:      Saddlers House, 4th Floor
address:      44 Gutter Lane
address:      London EC2V 6BR
address:      United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
phone:        +44 20 33 88 0600
fax-no:       +44 20 33 88 0601
e-mail:       tld.ops@centralnic.com

nserver:      A.NIC.COLLEGE 194.169.218.44 2001:67c:13cc:0:0:0:1:44
nserver:      B.NIC.COLLEGE 185.24.64.44 2a04:2b00:13cc:0:0:0:1:44
nserver:      C.NIC.COLLEGE 212.18.248.44 2a04:2b00:13ee:0:0:0:0:44
nserver:      D.NIC.COLLEGE 212.18.249.44 2a04:2b00:13ff:0:0:0:0:44
ds-rdata:     46634 8 2 7bebb696e117d17efa506b8dd2209d2c49e97e6635596ff3177be76be0463c3c
ds-rdata:     58717 8 2 e6e5f277e746f95d3437e6dcb123cc6825cf733639c389ba79d55d997e25413a

whois:        whois.nic.college

status:       ACTIVE
remarks:      Registration information: https://nic.college/

created:      2014-03-13
changed:      2025-08-12
source:       IANA

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