Overview
- .restaurant is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) introduced through ICANN's New gTLD Program.
- The string is "restaurant" and the TLD status is listed as Delegated.
History
- Proposed as part of ICANN's New gTLD Program.
- Multiple applicants competed for the string; the contention was resolved via a private auction in June 2014.
- Donuts (via Snow Avenue, LLC) won the private auction and became the successful applicant.
- Registry Agreement with ICANN was signed for .restaurant on 3 July 2014 after passing Initial Evaluation.
- .restaurant was delegated to the DNS Root Zone on 8 August 2014.
Registration Rules
- Donuts and at least one other applicant submitted Public Interest Commitments (PICs) for the string.
- The registry announced a Sunrise period for .restaurant running from 2 September 2014 to 1 November 2014.
- Beyond the Sunrise dates and the existence of PICs and a signed Registry Agreement, no further registration restrictions or character rules are detailed in the provided source.
Notable Cases or Examples
- Successful applicant: Donuts (Snow Avenue, LLC), which applied for many other gTLDs (307 in total for the applicant entity noted).
- Other applicants in the contention set included Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd., Uniregistry (Frank Schilling's company), and Famous Four Media (dot Restaurant Limited).
- After the June 2014 private auction that Donuts won, the other applicants withdrew their applications for .restaurant.
- Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd. had previously announced a funding agreement (reported 26 February 2013) worth up to $15 million intended to be used in the case of an auction for an unnamed TLD; this funding announcement was discussed in the context of competing applicants.
Operator
Binky Moon, LLC
Whois
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domain: RESTAURANT
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.RESTAURANT 2a01:8840:1e:0:0:0:0:49 65.22.28.49
nserver: V0N1.NIC.RESTAURANT 2a01:8840:1f:0:0:0:0:49 65.22.29.49
nserver: V0N2.NIC.RESTAURANT 2a01:8840:20:0:0:0:0:49 65.22.30.49
nserver: V0N3.NIC.RESTAURANT 161.232.14.49 2a01:8840:f8:0:0:0:0:49
nserver: V2N0.NIC.RESTAURANT 2a01:8840:21:0:0:0:0:49 65.22.31.49
nserver: V2N1.NIC.RESTAURANT 161.232.15.49 2a01:8840:f9:0:0:0:0:49
ds-rdata: 62200 8 2 a9093436978db7d5ee302879f0bf8d7a84e0a2c0aa132784f92d97d0d4e15992
whois: whois.nic.restaurant
status: ACTIVE
remarks: Registration information: https://www.identity.digital/
created: 2014-07-31
changed: 2023-09-12
source: IANA
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