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    Generic top-level domainsIDNDNSSEC

    Overview

    .contact is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) introduced through ICANN's New gTLD Program. The string is intended to serve as a recognizable namespace for dedicated contact pages, customer-support sites, complaint or contact communities, and other uses focused on connecting customers with organizations or products.

    History

    • Applied-for as part of ICANN's New gTLD Program; reveal day of applied-for strings was 13 June 2012.
    • The application was submitted by Top Level Spectrum, Inc.
    • .contact was delegated to the DNS Root Zone on 22 December 2015.
    • Classified as a generic TLD and listed in technology-related new gTLD categories (registry priority noted as 1231 for Top Level Spectrum).

    Usage and Audience

    • Target audience:

      • Companies and brands that want a dedicated, memorable contact or support site (for example: product.contact or brand.contact).
      • Communities and services focused on customer feedback, complaints, or customer service operations.
      • Individuals or organizations wishing to create a focused contact area separate from a main website.

    • Registry intentions (from the applicant):

      • Position .contact as a recognizable, viable extension for contact-focused sites.
      • Encourage registrants to create websites dedicated to contact and customer interaction.
      • Use targeted marketing and niche pricing to attract registrants interested in dedicated contact services.
      • Projected growth included estimates (applicant projected up to ~33,000 registrations by end of year 3 under conservative scenarios).

    Registration Rules

    • Registration policy and availability:

      • The registry planned an open registration policy—domains offered through ICANN-accredited registrars without verification of certification, training, or other merit-based requirements.
      • No special eligibility verification required for registrants was described in the application.

    • Rights protection and dispute mechanisms:

      • The registry committed to implementing ICANN-mandated rights protection mechanisms, including the Trademark Clearinghouse, the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS), the Trademark Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedure (PDDRP), the Registry-Registrar Data Escrow/Dispute processes (RRDRP), and the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy (UDRP).

    SEO and Brand Impact

    • Brand positioning:

      • The applicant emphasized that .contact would create a clear, focused namespace for contact-related services and improve discoverability of official contact information.
      • Owning a .contact domain was framed as a way for companies to centralize and highlight contact/support channels separate from their main websites.

    • Trust and abuse concerns:

      • The registry intended to use standard ICANN rights-protection mechanisms to mitigate defensive, bad-faith, and malicious registrations, supporting brand protection and trustworthiness for legitimate registrants.

    Operator

    Dog Beach, LLC

    Whois

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

domain:       CONTACT

organisation: Dog Beach, LLC
address:      c/o Identity Digital Limited
address:      10500 NE 8th Street, Suite 750
address:      Bellevue WA 98004
address:      United States of America (the)

contact:      administrative
name:         Vice President, Engineering
organisation: Identity Digital Limited
address:      10500 NE 8th Street, Suite 750
address:      Bellevue WA 98004
address:      United States of America (the)
phone:        +1.425.298.2200
fax-no:       +1.425.671.0020
e-mail:       tldadmin@identity.digital

contact:      technical
name:         Senior Director, DNS Infrastructure Group
organisation: Identity Digital Limited
address:      10500 NE 8th Street, Suite 750
address:      Bellevue WA 98004
address:      United States of America (the)
phone:        +1.425.298.2200
fax-no:       +1.425.671.0020
e-mail:       tldtech@identity.digital

nserver:      V0N0.NIC.CONTACT 2a01:8840:1a:0:0:0:0:34 65.22.24.34
nserver:      V0N1.NIC.CONTACT 2a01:8840:1b:0:0:0:0:34 65.22.25.34
nserver:      V0N2.NIC.CONTACT 2a01:8840:1c:0:0:0:0:34 65.22.26.34
nserver:      V0N3.NIC.CONTACT 161.232.12.34 2a01:8840:f6:0:0:0:0:34
nserver:      V2N0.NIC.CONTACT 2a01:8840:1d:0:0:0:0:34 65.22.27.34
nserver:      V2N1.NIC.CONTACT 161.232.13.34 2a01:8840:f7:0:0:0:0:34
ds-rdata:     53062 8 2 222b955db8b21ee60995cca8de45627d6e0156627453fec444ef6c57339e8375

whois:        whois.nic.contact

status:       ACTIVE
remarks:      Registration information: https://www.identity.digital/

created:      2015-12-10
changed:      2023-09-12
source:       IANA

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