Reglikedomain industry desk

Four more fresh TLD contention sets settled in private auctions

Donuts and Radix win auctions to settle four more fresh TLD contention sets.

Innovative Auctions has helped settle four more top level domain name contention sets through its auction service.

Donuts, by the far the largest applicant for fresh top level domains, won three auctions. It is now the sole applicant for .lawyer, .fish, and .discount.

It beat Top Level Domain Holdings for .lawyer and beat Whatbox for .discount and .fish. (Interestingly, Whatbox’s application for .fish shows Dot Club, LLC as the applicant, but that appears to be an error.)

Radix* won an auction for .website against Top Level Domain Holdings and Donuts. Radix originally applied for 31 domains, but has withdrawn its applications for .movie and .play. It has 29 outstanding, and now has four uncontested applications: .website, .press, .space, and .host.

(*I work with Media.net, which has some common ownership with Radix.)

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