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Community bid for .Shop domain name — GMO loses

Firm scores just six points in evaluation.

GMO Registry has lost is Community Priority Evaluation (CPE) for the .Shop top level domain name.

The firm scored 6 points out of a possible 16 on its CPE, falling well short of the 14 required.

It scored no points for Community Establishment and Nexus. It picked up a handful for registration policies since of some basic registration restrictions. It also scored some on Community Endorsement, mostly since there was no opposition.

The decision is available here (pdf).

There’s still a pending CPE for .Shop filed by applicant Commercial Connect LLC. It ought to also fail, but stranger decisions have been made in the top level domain program.

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