.locus

Overview

• .locus is a brand generic top-level domain (gTLD) delegated into the DNS root zone under ICANN's New gTLD Program.
• Registry operator / applicant: Locus Analytics LLC.
• Registry technical operator listed as the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC).
• Intended as a semantically defined, community-focused TLD aimed primarily at business-oriented uses.

History

• Revealed as an applied-for string during ICANN's New gTLD application process in 2012.
• Failed the Initial Evaluation in June 2013 due to responses to financial questions, but was eligible for Extended Evaluation (EE).
• Passed Extended Evaluation in January 2014.
• Delegated to the Root Zone on 9 March 2016.

Usage and Audience

• Intended audience: business and finance communities and other semantically defined communities.
• Applicant vision: a specialty TLD where each domain name carries a specific semantic meaning within a larger economic system.
• Uses described by the applicant include business-oriented domains attached to a "GPS-like" address to position and relate sites within the Locus community.
• Related concept: the applicant also discussed a companion social-enterprise TLD (".Impact") for organisations in the global social impact community.
• Positioning: presented as a next-generation, Web 3.0–oriented approach to community and semantic domain naming.

Registration Rules

• The applicant described .locus as a community-based upper-level domain; second-level registrations would be approved through a defined process intended to meet the TLD's objectives and standards.
• Domain names were envisioned to be semantically defined and to participate in the Locus community model (including the GPS-like addressing concept).
• No specific public technical restrictions, allowed characters, or minimum/maximum registration period details are provided in the source material.

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domain:       LOCUS

organisation: Locus Analytics LLC
address:      179 Franklin Street
address:      3rd Floor
address:      New York NY 10013
address:      United States of America (the)

contact:      administrative
name:         Sean Sandys
organisation: Locus Analytics LLC
address:      101 Elliott Avenue West, Suite 400
address:      Seattle WA 98119
address:      United States of America (the)
phone:        +1 206 910 6225
fax-no:       +1 212 883 2299
e-mail:       sean@tyemill.com

contact:      technical
name:         TLD Registry Services Technical
organisation: Nominet
address:      Minerva House
address:      Edmund Halley Road
address:      Oxford Science Park
address:      Oxford OX4 4DQ
address:      United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
phone:        +44.1865332211
e-mail:       registrytechnical@nominet.uk

nserver:      DNS1.NIC.LOCUS 213.248.219.11 2a01:618:403:0:0:0:0:11
nserver:      DNS2.NIC.LOCUS 103.49.83.11 2401:fd80:403:0:0:0:0:11
nserver:      DNS3.NIC.LOCUS 213.248.223.11 2a01:618:407:0:0:0:0:11
nserver:      DNS4.NIC.LOCUS 2401:fd80:407:0:0:0:0:11 43.230.51.11
nserver:      DNSA.NIC.LOCUS 156.154.100.3 2001:502:ad09:0:0:0:0:3
nserver:      DNSB.NIC.LOCUS 156.154.101.3 2001:502:2eda:0:0:0:0:3
nserver:      DNSC.NIC.LOCUS 156.154.102.3 2610:a1:1009:0:0:0:0:3
nserver:      DNSD.NIC.LOCUS 156.154.103.3 2610:a1:1010:0:0:0:0:3
ds-rdata:     23735 8 2 fb7c38be258c83cb17367ab656fe05f6a8a2a616feac4115dcecfa7da03a1214

whois:        

status:       ACTIVE
remarks:      Registration information: http://nic.locus

created:      2016-02-26
changed:      2025-01-28
source:       IANA