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Overview
.gallery is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) introduced through ICANN's New gTLD Program. The string is positioned for galleries and visual media and was described in its application as a means of providing greater expression on the Internet. The registry for .gallery is operated by Donuts (Sugar House, LLC).
History
- Proposed as part of ICANN's New gTLD Program; Donuts (Sugar House, LLC) was the sole applicant and registry operator.
- Registry Agreement with ICANN was signed on 13 September 2013.
- .gallery was delegated to the DNS Root Zone on 14 November 2013.
- Sunrise period announced to run from 3 December 2013 to 31 January 2014.
- Listed under the Media category in gTLD groupings and assigned priority 496 under Donuts (Sugar House, LLC).
Usage and Audience
- Targeted toward galleries, visual-media sites and other creative-expression uses as described in the application.
- Categorized as a Media gTLD, making it suitable for artists, photographers, museums, galleries, portfolios and other visual-content publishers.
Registration Rules
- The .gallery application described the TLD as an open gTLD without pre-registration policies.
- The registry indicated it would not use pre-registration verification, stating such verification could deny domain access to legitimate registrants.
- The registry committed to adhere to ICANN registration policies and planned to implement remediation and takedown policies and other user and rights protections.
- Sunrise period dates were established (3 December 2013 to 31 January 2014) to allow trademark holders priority registration before general availability.
Operator
Whois
% IANA WHOIS server % for more information on IANA, visit http://www.iana.org % This query returned 1 object domain: GALLERY organisation: Binky Moon, 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.GALLERY 2a01:8840:1a:0:0:0:0:8 65.22.24.8 nserver: V0N1.NIC.GALLERY 2a01:8840:1b:0:0:0:0:8 65.22.25.8 nserver: V0N2.NIC.GALLERY 2a01:8840:1c:0:0:0:0:8 65.22.26.8 nserver: V0N3.NIC.GALLERY 161.232.12.8 2a01:8840:f6:0:0:0:0:8 nserver: V2N0.NIC.GALLERY 2a01:8840:1d:0:0:0:0:8 65.22.27.8 nserver: V2N1.NIC.GALLERY 161.232.13.8 2a01:8840:f7:0:0:0:0:8 ds-rdata: 11671 8 2 6d21a1e67d81b0c40c63c22650433bfbca5ec66657bca99c01849387563f7bfe whois: whois.nic.gallery status: ACTIVE remarks: Registration information: https://www.identity.digital/ created: 2013-11-08 changed: 2023-09-13 source: IANA