Proposed top-level domain

There are several proposed top-level domains that have not yet been submitted to or approved by ICANN, as of 2008.

 Location-based 



 .berlin - Berlin.
 .london - London.
 .nyc - New York City.
 .paris - Paris.
 .lat - General Latin American websites, similar to .asia and .eu.
 .africa - General African websites, similar to .asia and .eu.

 Language and community 
These proposals are for making independent internet identities by language and culture. They are mostly inspired by the success of the .cat domain created for websites in the Catalan language or about the Catalan culture.

 Domain name intended use sponsor year of proposal comments .bzh Breton language and Brittany www.bzh  A point level domain for Brittany 2006 A campaign is organized in Brittany to support the request of creation of the .BZH. The campaign's website gives information about the status of the proposal and the organization behind and mostly holds a petition for the creation of the domain. As of August 2008 there are over 17,000 signatories. .cym Welsh language and Wales dotCYM.org 2006 Mentioned in BBC News Online: Wales on the web may become .cym, Adrian Browne, 17 November 2006 .eng England dotENG.org 2008 The dotENG.org website was set up by John Sewell of Maidenhead in Surrey. Mentioned in PC Pro Online: Campaign begins for .eng domain , Stuart Turton, 23 April 2008 .gal Galician language and Galicia PuntoGal 2006 Several companies and institutions are involved in this campaign, including the autonomous government, Xunta de Galicia. .lli Leonese language and Leonese culture puntuLLI  2007 Several companies, associations, organisations and institutions are involved in this campaign. .Quebec    Quebec    Pointquebec    2008    The operationpoint-qc.org website is an initiative of Daniel Turp, at that time, a member of the National Assembly of Quebec. Presently Quebec is allocated the subdomain ".qc.ca", similar to other Canadian provinces.    .scot Scotland, The Scots Community of Interest online, Scottish culture and Scotland's languages dotSCO.org  2005 dotSCO began in late 2005 and has been campaigning to built support for a new TLD from among the Scots community around the world. The campaign was publicly launched at a meeting of the Scottish Parliament's cross-party group on the Scots language by Davie Hutchison and Euan McCreath. .ker Cornish language and Cornwall (Kernow) in general Cornish World Magazine  2008  .bcn City of Barcelona  2008  .eus Basque language PuntuEus association  2009 University professors, scientists, and several companies and institutions are involved in this campaign, including the autonomous government, Eusko Jaurlaritza and the Basque Language Academy, Euskaltzaindia.

 Children 
.kids is a top-level domain that has been proposed. So far, none of these proposals (other than the second-level .kids.us domain) have come to be.

Applications for a .kids domain have included:

Blueberry Hill Communications, Inc.Summary of Application of Blueberry HillBlueberry Hill is a domain name registration and hosting company in California. Neustar and Melbourne IT would subcontract operation of registry servers. Registrars would be selected under the same criteria and process currently imposed by ICANN. The .kids proposal would not rely on objective criteria for categorizing content.DotKids, Inc.Summary of Application of dotKids IncDotKids, established in 2000 in Rosemont, Illinois intends to use SARAF Software Solutions Inc. for software development of a .kids registry. DotKids would deal only with ICANN accredited registrars; content rating information is to be retained in the registry and is to describe ratings for an entire site.ICM Registry, Inc.Summary of Application of ICM RegistryICM Registry requested the .xxx and .kids TLDs as a way to improve child safety on the Internet by restricting content across both TLDs and targeting a narrow registrant group. The original intent was a for-profit .xxx registry and a non-profit .kids registry. The .xxx domain portion of this proposal has since been rejected, largely due to US government objections..KIDS Domains, Inc.Summary of Application of .Kids Domains.KIDS Domains is a California for-profit corporation; the proposed registry operator is  Toronto-based domain name registrar Tucows Inc and .KIDS would be a restricted TLD. .KIDS Domains therefore does not intend to allow other registrars to register domain names in the .kids TLD. 

The European Parliament has also proposed .kid for websites designed for children.  It would be monitored by an independent authority.

 Technical 
 .geo - Generic geographical locations.
 .mail - A domain for e-mail networks, proposed to make fighting e-mail spam easier.
 .web

 Specialized and professional topics 
 .med - Medical hospitals.
 .eco - Environmental causes  Al Gore says domain .eco logical
 .post - Postal organizations.
 .xxx - Adult entertainment.

Other websites
 ICANN Proposed Top-Level Domain Registry Service
 Web Campaigns Boost, Eurolang - ICANN discussed the proposed top-level domains at a conference on 3 July 2008

References

Category:Requested top-level domains