.diet

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Status: Proposed
Type: Generic TLD
Category: Health
Priority #: 248 - Famous Four Media (dot Diet Limited)
1535 - Donuts (Pioneer Hill, LLC)

871 - Uniregistry, Corp.

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.diet is a generic top level domain name (gTLD) that was proposed in ICANN's new gTLD expansion program. After a Private auction in May 2014, Uniregistry became the only applicant for the string.

Background

Current Applicant

  1. Uniregistry, Corp. - The company applied for 54 TLDs. Uniregistry was formed by Frank Schilling, who is known as a domain name investor.[1]

Previous Applicants

  1. Famous Four Media (dot Diet Limited)- The company is represented by Mr. Geir Rasmussen, a registry service provider based in Gibraltar that has filed for 61 domain name strings.[2]
  2. Donuts (Pioneer Hill, LLC)- One of the companies created to submit its application for the TLD. Donuts filed for 307 new gTLDs, each under different company names.[3] This applicant submitted a Public Interest Commitment, which can be downloaded here.

Private Auction

In a private auction conducted by Applicant Auction in May 2014, Uniregistry won the rights to .diet over the other two applicants for an undisclosed amount.[4]

References