Overview
- .コム is an internationalized gTLD (IDN gTLD) consisting of Katakana characters and is a transliteration of the ASCII string ".com".
- It was applied for under ICANN's New gTLD Program; the applicant, registry operator and manager listed is Verisign.
History
- Status: Proposed (applied-for in ICANN's New gTLD Program).
- Applicant / Registry / Manager: Verisign.
- Verisign announced plans to apply for multiple IDN transliterations of .com and .net; ultimately the company applied for 14 new gTLDs, 12 of which were IDN transliterations of .com/.net.
- Languages chosen for Verisign's transliterations include: Thai, Devanagari, Korean (Hangul), Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), Hebrew, Russian (Cyrillic), Arabic, and Japanese (Katakana).
- Verisign also applied for two non-IDN gTLDs in the same program: .comsec and .verisign.
- Verisign executive Pat Kane described plans (July 2013) to allow existing registrants of IDN second-level .com names to secure matching names under the new IDN gTLDs.
Usage and Audience
- Primary target audience identified in Verisign's application are existing registrants of internationalized second-level domain names under .com.
- At the time of application, Verisign noted there were more than 800,000 IDN second-level registrations in .com, including approximately 50,000 in Katakana; these Katakana registrants are the initial target for .コム.
- The intent is to enable registrants to convert or also hold the equivalent name in IDN form ("IDN.IDN"), providing an IDN namespace that mirrors .com for local-language users.
Registration Rules
- Verisign's stated plan grants registrants of matching IDN second-level names in .com the opportunity to register the corresponding name under the new IDN gTLD (e.g., existing Katakana SLDs in .com could register the same label under .コム).
- Verisign described a "buy once" approach for matching second-level IDN names under its new IDN gTLDs, allowing existing holders of an IDN SLD in .com certain rights to the equivalent under the transliteration gTLD.
- No specific technical restrictions, eligibility criteria, minimum/maximum registration periods or allowed-character rules are provided in the available material.
Notable Cases or Examples
- Verisign used an illustrative example for its policy: a registrant of a Hebrew IDN second-level name under .com would have rights to the same second-level under the Hebrew transliteration of .com (represented in source material as קוֹם.), but would not automatically have rights under a hypothetical Hebrew transliteration of .net.
- .コム is one of several Verisign applications that sought to create IDN equivalents of .com across multiple scripts and languages.
Operator
VeriSign Sarl
Whois
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domain: コム
domain-ace: XN--TCKWE
organisation: VeriSign Sarl
address: 3 rue des Pilettes
address: Fribourg CH-1700
address: Switzerland
contact: administrative
name: Registry Customer Service
organisation: Verisign, Inc.
address: 12061 Bluemont Way
address: Reston VA 20190
address: United States of America (the)
phone: +1-703-925-6999
fax-no: +1-703-948-3978
e-mail: info@verisign-grs.com
contact: technical
name: Registry Customer Service
organisation: Verisign, Inc.
address: 12061 Bluemont Way
address: Reston VA 20190
address: United States of America (the)
phone: +1-703-925-6999
fax-no: +1-703-948-3978
e-mail: info@verisign-grs.com
nserver: AC1.NSTLD.COM 192.42.173.30 2001:500:120:0:0:0:0:30
nserver: AC2.NSTLD.COM 192.42.174.30 2001:500:121:0:0:0:0:30
nserver: AC3.NSTLD.COM 192.42.175.30 2001:500:122:0:0:0:0:30
nserver: AC4.NSTLD.COM 192.42.176.30 2001:500:123:0:0:0:0:30
ds-rdata: 35520 8 2 131328bff91843a53643bf73535a6acb5ef32a916a23e0a7ab54794c2227f45d
whois: whois.nic.xn--tckwe
status: ACTIVE
remarks: Registration information: https://www.verisigninc.com
created: 2015-07-02
changed: 2020-10-01
source: IANA
Registrars
