Overview
- .ikano is a Community and Brand gTLD created through ICANN's New gTLD Program.
- The string is managed by Ikano S.A., the holding company of an international, family-owned group of companies.
History
- Applied as part of ICANN's New gTLD Program (reveal day: 13 June 2012).
- Delegation/implementation date: 01 July 2016.
- TLD type: Community gTLD and Brand TLD.
- Priority/reference: 1897 — Ikano S.A.
- Contact listed on the application: Katrin Ohlmer (Dotzon).
Usage and Audience
- Operator/manager: Ikano S.A.
- Intended audience: the Ikano group and its community (company and related entities).
- Ikano S.A. profile (from application):
- Established: 16 April 1988.
- Business areas: asset management, finance, insurance, real estate and retail.
- Geographic presence: operates in 17 countries across Europe, Asia and the USA.
- Employees: close to 3,000.
- Registered office and principal place of business: Luxembourg.
- Financials reported for 2010 (from the application):
- Asset management: market value of assets under management 4.5 billion EUR.
- Finance: business volume 4.2 billion EUR.
- Insurance: gross premium written 111 million EUR.
- Real estate: market value property 1 billion EUR.
- Retail: turnover 245 million EUR.
Notable Cases or Examples
- Ikano S.A. was originally part of IKEA; Ikano became an independent group in 1988 and is still owned by the Kamprad family.
- Ikano S.A. is the named manager and holder of the .ikano string in ICANN records.
Operator
Ikano S.A.
Whois
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domain: IKANO
organisation: Ikano S.A.
address: 1, rue Nicolas Welter
address: Luxembourg L-2740
address: Luxembourg
contact: administrative
name: CEO
organisation: DOTZON GmbH
address: Akazienstr 28
address: Berlin Berlin 10823
address: Germany
phone: +49 30 4980 2722
fax-no: +49 30 4980 2727
e-mail: ikano@dotzon.com
contact: technical
name: Technical Operations
organisation: TLD-BOX Registrydienstleistungen GmbH
address: Jakob-Haringer-Strasse 8/V
address: Salzburg 5020
address: Austria
phone: +43 662 234548 730
fax-no: +43 662 234548 29
e-mail: iana@tld-box.at
nserver: A.DNS.NIC.IKANO 194.0.25.12 2001:678:20:0:0:0:0:12
nserver: M.DNS.NIC.IKANO 194.0.26.7 2001:67c:10e0:0:0:0:0:7
nserver: N.DNS.NIC.IKANO 194.0.24.7 2001:678:24:0:0:0:0:7
ds-rdata: 11692 8 2 e041cebaf350d90d1d6235ad11b5f2091c89b0a0b6799c56262f60bc9ce02c68
ds-rdata: 36290 8 2 35362090dc32742c5385db54ea1efcd180fd33fc04e233b88d18ca6604731cd1
whois: whois.nic.ikano
status: ACTIVE
remarks: Registration information: http://www.ikano.lu
created: 2016-06-03
changed: 2025-05-13
source: IANA
