India, November 12, 2013: Radix, Asia’s largest new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) applicant under ICANN’s new gTLD program announced that it has won the rights to operate the new top level domain, .website, after winning a private auction late last month against two other applicants. The .website extension is aimed at anyone who wishes to own a short, memorable name on a meaningful domain that is truly generic. With this flagship win, Radix will now begin to execute the final process required to make .website available to Internet users. .website is expected to be launched in the second quarter of 2014.
Commenting on the win, Bhavin Turakhia, Indian entrepreneur and Founder, Radix, said, “We are more than pleased to have secured our first major win in the form of .website. It has been one of our top picks for Radix’s flagship TLD and is an extension that exemplifies our strategy – to operate extensions that have the maximum global impact. It is also testimony to our successful entry in the registry business and will help us strengthen our foothold therein.”
According to global survey data spanning hundreds of individuals and business owners across over 25 professional categories, the .website extension ranks among the top three in the generic category. The .website TLD also featured in the top three choices of users who do not own a domain name and seek to buy one. In addition to .website, Radix has also applied for the following strings – .web, .shop, .bank, .law, .music, .news, .blog, .movie, .baby, .store, .doctor, .hotel, .play, .home .site, .click, .online, .one, .ping, .world, .chat, .city, .deals, .insurance .loans, .app, and .hosting.
In June 2011, ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the global body that oversees the operation and administration of the Internet domain name system) announced a program to expand the Internet’s addressing system. Until now, there have been fewer than 25 gTLDs, among them .com, .info and .org. The program allows brands, entrepreneurs and governments to include any word or name as a Top-Level Domain including geographic locations and generic names. The introduction of new gTLDs will see the internet now grow from 22 generic top level domains to more than 1400 possible new gTLDs.
About Radix
Radix is a domain name registry business that seeks to globally operate 29 new, top level domains including .web, .music, .blog, and .shop, as a part of ICANN’s project to open new, meaningful internet addresses. Radix is Asia’s largest new gTLD applicant under this program, and expects to play a large role in the global diversification of the internet namespace. The company has passed initial evaluation and has met the required business, technology and operations capabilities to operate a new gTLD at the global level.
Radix will also begin marketing its three uncontested extensions; .press, .host and .space in the near future. For more information, please visit http://radixregistry.com/about-us.php.