CentralNic
CentralNic is a domain registry and registry service provider based in London, England that currently manages the .la and .pw extensions, and is the back-end provider for sixty new top-level domain applications.[1]
New top-level domains[edit]
The list of new top-level domains being sold by CentralNiC is:[2]
Second-level domains[edit]
It also offers subdomains under the following second level domains:[3]
- .ae.org: for United Arab Emirates
- .ar.com: Argentina
- .br.com: Brazil
- .cn.com: China
- .com.de: Germany
- .de.com: Germany
- .eu.com:[4] European Union
- .gb.com: Great Britain
- .gb.net: Great Britain
- .gr.com: for Group, Greece, Grand Rapids / USA
- .hu.com: Hungary
- .jpn.com: Japan
- .jp.net: Japan
- .kr.com: Korea
- .no.com: Norway
- .qc.com: Quebec
- .ru.com: Russia
- .sa.com: Saudi Arabia
- .se.com: Sweden
- .se.net: Sweden
- .uk.com: United Kingdom
- .uk.net: United Kingdom
- .us.com: United States
- .uy.com: Uruguay
- .za.com: South Africa
These subdomains have been relatively popular and sold across a wide range of domain registrars globally, including Network Solutions, eNom, Webfusion, GMO, Gandi, Key Systems, Directi, InternetX, and many others.[citation needed] None of these domains is an official SLD. Therefore, that part of CentralNic's operation fulfills the definition of a private sub-domain registry. In case of the .la, .pw and new TLD domains, however, CentralNic operates as the official registry service provider of those ccTLDs and gTLDs.
History[edit]
In 2000, Stephen Dyer founded CentralNic[5] as a successor organisation to NomiNation, a company which he had founded in 1995.[6]
In 2013, CentralNic announced[7] that it planned to float on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.
References[edit]
- ^ A Different Take on New TLDs
- ^ https://www.centralnic.com/portfolio/newtlds/overview
- ^ "List of domains offered by CentralNic". CentralNic website. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
- ^ "Slow EC beaten to '.eu' domain suffix". Incisive Media. 2000-04-30. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ McCarthy, Kieren (2004-06-23). "Vote for who should run the UK's Internet". The Register. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ "Exhibit 1 Information on Nominet UK". ICANN. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
- ^ Titcomb, James (2013-08-12). "UK web domain firm CentralNic eyes London IPO". Daily Teleraph. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
