.locus - brand top-level domain

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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.

Operator

Locus Analytics LLC

Whois

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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