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    • .gea

    Generic top-level domainsIDNDNSSEC

    Overview

    • .gea is a Community gTLD and Brand TLD delegated to the DNS Root Zone as part of ICANN's New gTLD Program.
    • The string was delegated on 28 August 2015.
    • The registry is managed by GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft with back-end services provided by Afilias.

    History

    • The .gea string was applied for during ICANN's New gTLD Program (application revealed on 13 June 2012).
    • Priority number recorded as 658 for GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft.
    • Delegation to the Root Zone occurred on 28 August 2015.
    • Operational arrangements list GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft as the registry operator and Afilias as the backend provider.

    Usage and Audience

    • Intended users are the GEA community: GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft and its globally affiliated companies.
    • Community membership is defined as entities either fully owned by GEA or majority-owned (at least 50.1% shares).
    • GEA Group is a systems provider for food and energy processes, with noted scale (2011 turnover ~€5.4 billion and ~24,000 employees) and a long history in engineering and technology, headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.

    Registration Rules

    • The TLD is a closed, branded/community namespace: the GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft will be the registrant for the TLD.
    • Community membership criteria are tied to ownership by GEA (fully owned or majority ownership of 50.1%).

    SEO and Brand Impact

    • As a brand/community gTLD with a single registrant model, .gea provides a tightly controlled namespace for GEA's corporate identity and branding.
    • The closed nature of the TLD supports centralized governance and consistent brand use across domains under .gea.

    Notable Cases or Examples

    • Representatives of the .gea application corresponded with ICANN regarding string similarity concerns (notably in correspondence with the .ged bid), arguing differences in scope and the closed nature of their registries.
    • Around the time of those discussions, ICANN announced that only two contention sets were created in that phase (.unicom/.unicorn and .hotels/.hoteis).

    Operator

    GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft

    Whois

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

domain:       GEA

organisation: GEA Group Aktiengesellschaft
address:      Peter-Mueller-Str. 12
address:      Duesseldorf NRW 40468
address:      Germany

contact:      administrative
name:         CEO
organisation: LEMARIT GmbH
address:      Werkstrasse 12
address:      Harrislee Schleswig-Holstein 24955
address:      Germany
phone:        +49 461 5050 35 0
e-mail:       gearegistry@lemarit.com

contact:      technical
name:         CTO
organisation: LEMARIT GmbH
address:      Werkstrasse 12
address:      Harrislee Schleswig-Holstein 24955
address:      Germany
phone:        +49 4615050350
fax-no:       +49 461 50503535
e-mail:       gearegistry@lemarit.com

nserver:      A.DNS.NIC.GEA 194.0.25.33 2001:678:20:0:0:0:0:33
nserver:      M.DNS.NIC.GEA 194.0.26.13 2001:67c:10e0:0:0:0:0:13
nserver:      N.DNS.NIC.GEA 194.0.24.13 2001:678:24:0:0:0:0:13
ds-rdata:     60191 8 2 62049b91e513b7230f960b356c6e70634af960efbfe5ddd4f33741a26b2583f0

whois:        whois.nic.gea

status:       ACTIVE
remarks:      Registration information: http://www.geagroup.com

created:      2015-07-09
changed:      2022-06-15
source:       IANA