.Shop
.shop is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) that meets the requirements of commercial internet retailers ( ecommerce business ) to be able to use a country-independent web address.
The establishment of the .shop-TLD was applied for in the first round of expanding the country-specific domain in 2000 by Commercial Connect LLC and was rejected by ICANN. The inclusion of .shop in the list of new top-level domains and their administration was applied for again in 2009 by the Japanese GMO Registry Inc. at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Other applicants to operate the Domain Name Service were Google and Amazon .
On January 27, 2016, the domain was auctioned by the Japanese GMO Registry Inc. for USD 41.5 million. At the time of the auction, the German registrar United Internet already had 142,627 non-binding pre-orders. The domain extension .shop should be available in Germany from September 26, 2016.
As GMO announced, .shop should not become a standard extension and the resale of .shop addresses should be restricted. Buyers of .shop addresses should be related to e-commerce .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: News from .shop, .info and .sg. In: domain-right. November 18, 2009. Retrieved November 21, 2012 .
- ↑ New domain endings: Google and Amazon are fighting over .search and .shop (spiegel.de from June 15, 2012, accessed on July 4, 2016)
- ↑ .shop. In: ICANNwiki. June 4, 2013, accessed June 26, 2013 .
- ↑ a b .shop: the 40 million dollar domain (heise.de from January 30, 2016, accessed on July 4, 2016)
- ↑ Start sequence of the new domain endings (united-domains.de, accessed on July 4, 2016)
- ↑ For over 40 million US dollars: .shop: Expensive web address (internetworld.de from March 18, 2016, accessed on July 4, 2016)