GeoTLD


A GeoTLD is a top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet using the name of or invoking an association with a geographical, geopolitical, ethnic, linguistic or cultural community.
, several examples of geographic TLDs exist: .london, enabling London businesses, organizations, and individuals to establish an online naming presence, .asia, .rio, .quebec, .cat which is a sponsored top-level domain intended to be used to highlight the Catalan language and culture.
.eu is a country code top-level domain, since "EU" is a reserved country code for the European Union in ISO 3166-1.
The geographic TLDs have formed in 2017 an interest group that is member of the Registry Stakeholder Group at ICANN. The GeoTLD Group AISBL is an international non-for-profit membership association resident in Belgium. It represents and promotes the interests of organizations operating a generic top-level domain which denominates a geographic name, geographic identifier or geographic origin with the purpose of serving the respective place, language and culture on the internet.

Proposals

Examples of proposed top-level domains in this category are:

On June 13, 2012 ICANN has revealed nearly 2,000 applications for new top-level domains, which are expected to go live throughout 2014 after thorough examination.


Many of these are geographic, including:
An internationalized country code is similar to a GeoTLD, with two differences: it is a domain used exclusively for a sovereign state. The other difference is that an internationalized country code is considered a ccTLD and not a GeoTLD. More free geographic ccTLD have been applied for and will be active in 2013.