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Status: General Availability Registry: Top Level Design Registry Backend: CentralNic Type: Generic Website: Twitter: nTLDStats Registrations: 103,944 Parked Domains: 60,540 Parked Domain %: 58.24 % Important Dates Delegation: 24 January 2015 General Availability: 12 May 2015 More Information:

.design is a top-level domain that was delegated to the DNS Root Zone in ICANN's new gTLD expansion program on January 24th, 2015 .[1] Top Level Design manages the TLD and is its Registry. The TLD's Sunrise period began February 24 and will ended April 28, 2015. The EAP started May 5, 2015 and ended May 12. General Availability began May 12, 2015. [2]

Previous Applicants

Private Auction

In a private auction that occurred in September 2014, Top Level Design won the rights to the string over the other applicants. The winning bid was not revealed.[11]

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