.immo

Overview

• .immo is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) based on the abbreviation "immo" from the French word 'immobilier' (meaning real estate).
• The string is commonly associated with the real estate sector and is popular in countries such as France, Germany and Italy.

History

• .immo was applied for under ICANN's new gTLD expansion program.
• Multiple applicants competed for the string, including Donuts (Auburn Bloom, LLC), STARTING DOT (community application), Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH / Minds + Machines parent), and dotimmobilie GmbH.
• The contention set was resolved in a private auction in June 2014; Donuts won the rights to the string.
• Donuts received a Registry Agreement signed by ICANN on 10 July 2014 after passing Initial Evaluation.
• .immo was delegated to the DNS Root Zone on 27 August 2014.
• The registry announced a Sunrise period that ran from 30 September 2014 to 29 November 2014.

Usage and Audience

• Target audience: real estate professionals and businesses — e.g., real estate agents, property managers, home builders, professional real estate publishers, and related insurance and financial service providers.
• STARTING DOT positioned .immo as the online space for the Continental European real-estate community and reported endorsements from associations and portals representing over 100,000 real estate businesses.

Registration Rules

• The successful applicant (Donuts) submitted a Public Interest Commitment (PIC) as part of its application.
• A Sunrise period was announced and ran from 30 September 2014 to 29 November 2014 to allow trademark holders priority registrations.

Notable Cases or Examples

• STARTING DOT applied as a community priority applicant with official endorsements from major real estate professional associations across Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg; the application represented a broad continental real-estate community.
• A Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) panel awarded STARTING DOT 4 out of 16 points (below the 14-point threshold), so it did not prevail as a community applicant and the contention proceeded to auction.
• Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) was involved in the contention; TLDH announced a funding arrangement (reported as up to $15 million) intended to support auction participation for contested strings.
• Donuts (Auburn Bloom, LLC), which applied for many gTLDs, won the private auction and became the registry operator for .immo.

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domain:       IMMO

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.IMMO 2a01:8840:1e:0:0:0:0:42 65.22.28.42
nserver:      V0N1.NIC.IMMO 2a01:8840:1f:0:0:0:0:42 65.22.29.42
nserver:      V0N2.NIC.IMMO 2a01:8840:20:0:0:0:0:42 65.22.30.42
nserver:      V0N3.NIC.IMMO 161.232.14.42 2a01:8840:f8:0:0:0:0:42
nserver:      V2N0.NIC.IMMO 2a01:8840:21:0:0:0:0:42 65.22.31.42
nserver:      V2N1.NIC.IMMO 161.232.15.42 2a01:8840:f9:0:0:0:0:42
ds-rdata:     32956 8 2 87b32e0aac22fdd5bf233faca5edfd1307b914efecef3778d6644caa8037f707

whois:        whois.nic.immo

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

created:      2014-08-22
changed:      2023-09-12
source:       IANA