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Uniregistry is a company based in the Cayman Islands and the domain name registry for the generic top-level domains .audio, .auto, .blackfriday, .car, .cars, .christmas, .click, .diet, .flowers, .game, .gift, .guitars, .help, .hiphop, .hiv, .hosting, .juegos, .link, .lol, .mom, .photo, .pics, .property, .sexy, and .tattoo. In February 2012, the related company Uniregistrar Corporation became an ICANN-accredited registrar and launched under the licensed Uniregistry brand name in 2014. ==History== The domain name registry Uniregistry Corporation was founded by Frank Schilling, who has been called "the most influential man in the domain industry" and is one of the largest private domain name portfolio owners in the world, in the Cayman Islands in 2012. Its genesis began six years prior. The domain Uniregistry.com was registered in 2006 and the company filed an intent to use the name in the Cayman Islands in 2010. Trademark applications for the "Uniregistry" mark and its stylized "U" logo were filed in 2012. That year, Schilling invested $60 million and applied for 54 new top-level domains. Uniregistrar Corporation became an ICANN-accredited registrar in February 2013. In January 2014, Uniregistry Inc. created new offices in Newport Beach, California to house a West Coast service and support team. The registrar launched and began operating under the licensed Uniregistry brand name in 2014.〔 Uniregistry's registry infrastructure was designed by Internet Systems Consortium (ISC),〔 but Uniregistry purchased the infrastructure in 2013 to operate as its own technical backend. In February 2014, the company launched its first two top-level domains, .sexy and .tattoo. That same month, Uniregistry reached a private deal with Donuts which resolved several contention sets involving the two companies. Uniregistry won the extensions .audio and .juegos ("games", in Spanish), while Donuts won .auction, .furniture, and .gratis. The two companies are still in contention over the top-level domain .shopping. Uniregistry won contention sets for .click, .hosting, and .property in April 2014. The company launched the top-level domains .audio, .hiphop, and .juegos in September 2014. It acquired .flowers for an undisclosed amount that same month, beating out Donuts, Minds + Machines, and 1-800-Flowers. In November 2014, Uniregistry (the registrar) began accepting the cryptocurrency Topcoin to pay for domain name registrations, inbound transfers, and renewals, across all extensions. The company released .click, .diet, .help, .hosting, and .property during the Thanksgiving holiday week in 2014. The company acquired .lol in January 2015,. mom in March, and .game in May 2015. Uniregistry launched .photo and .pics in April. In May 2015, the company and XYZ announced their joint operation of Cars Registry Limited, a company to introduce three top-level domains related to the automotive industry: .auto, .car., and .cars. Uniregistry had won .auto prevailed in the .cars contention in 2014, while XYZ acquired .car from Google for an undisclosed amount in 2015. The company launched a new version of its registry website in August 2015. In September 2015, Uniregistry agreed to take over management of the extension .hiv and continue fundraising and raising awareness of HIV/AIDS. .hiv became the first open charitable top-level domain in 2014. Schilling has said of the extension: By assuming the registry operations of .hiv, we are taking our core skills and putting them at the service of one of the most urgent challenges of humankind. The United Nations has reconfirmed the opportunities to end the global AIDS epidemic within our lifetime. At Uniregistry, we want to be a part of this ambitious endeavor. Of course, Uniregistry is a for-profit company. But with .hiv, we act as a social enterprise. It is the social mission that will guide the operation of this special TLD. Uniregistry has been the lead sponsor for the leading domain name industry conference NamesCon for at least three years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Uniregistry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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