Mission and Purpose: Charleston Road Registry Inc. dba Google Registry (Charleston Road Registry), a company wholly owned by Google, provides registry services to the public. Google is a technology leader focused on improving how millions of users connect with information. In line with Google’s mission, we make information accessible by extending the utility of the Domain Name System while enhancing the performance, security, and stability of the Internet. We aspire to create unique web spaces where users learn about products and services in a targeted manner. The primary purpose of the applied-for gTLD is to provide a dedicated, recognizable, and trusted space where registrants can enact second-level domains that relate to search, discovery, location, and finding information or goods. This applied-for gTLD provides registrants ability to categorize their online locations, securely manage their digital presence, and offer a highly recognized web space to the general Internet population.
Intended Registrants and Users: Charleston Road Registry intends to operate the applied-for gTLD as an open registry. The ultimate goal is to allow various businesses and individuals to comprehensively manage their domain space for discovery-related offerings. Registration will be widely accessible, and any interested parties will be authorized to register domains in accordance with standard, open registry policies. The intended registrants include search engines, discovery platforms, researchers, local businesses, and digital directories. The intended users of the applied-for gTLD are the general Internet public and consumers who will navigate to these domains to securely access discovery tools, search portals, targeted content, and services.
Related Activities: The applied-for gTLD will provide registrants with the ability to customize their domain names to signal to Internet users the precise nature of their websites. The specialization goal of the applied-for gTLD is to extend the search and discovery identity to each dedicated second-level domain space. This provides a centralized mechanism by which individuals and companies can easily link their diverse initiatives, allowing them to actively manage their digital presence and coordinate the introduction of web spaces for search-based services. Launching the applied-for gTLD will generate increased competition in the online marketplace by adding incremental availability to the domain pool. The applied-for gTLD provides an authoritative environment for the provision of targeted content. The applied-for gTLD will spur further innovation by providing an accelerated platform for the seamless introduction of new offerings and enhanced branding.
Sustainability Over Time: Charleston Road Registry will strive to provide the highest level of user experience through operational stability, security, and performance for the applied-for gTLD. This purpose is highly sustainable over time due to Google's long-term corporate standing, continuous investment, and robust technical infrastructure. We are uniquely positioned to provide this experience given our relationship with Google; Google invests heavily in IT infrastructure and maintains a record of excellence in operations. Google runs one of the largest DNS system globally, maintains industry-leading uptime, and offers enterprise services on which governments depend. Google keeps speed, reliability and scale in mind with each new service, ensuring ongoing stability for the registry's lifetime. Google is well-financed and committed to maintaining Charleston Road Registry, ensuring operation of the TLD remains viable, relevant, and fully funded.
The proposed .find top-level domain represents the act of finding - locating information, places, products, services, people, and answers. Helping visitors find something is one of the most common functions a website performs, from directories and guides to lookup tools and listings.
Intercap Registry proposes to operate .find as an open namespace, available for registration by the general public without restriction.
Intended registrants include individuals, creators, businesses, and organizations of all kinds that help people locate information, offerings, or destinations. Intended users are members of the general public looking for exactly that.
Intercap Registry will make .find names available worldwide through ICANN-accredited registrars, promote awareness and adoption of the namespace, publish its registration policies ahead of launch, operate the TLD openly, respond promptly to reports of abuse, and comply with applicable safeguards.
Demand for this category is sustainable: directories, guides, listings, and lookup tools are standing features of the web across every sector, and the need to find things is not tied to any trend, technology, or single company.
Link Freedom Group (LFG) aspires to become a best-in-class, vertically integrated domain name registration authority, see linkfreedomgroup.link. This TLD is part of a carefully curated portfolio of strings that LFG intends to pursue in ICANN’s 2026 New gTLD Program. In assembling this portfolio, LFG focused on securing meaningful, memorable, and commercially compelling strings that resonate strongly with end users and offer long-term growth potential.
Over the past four years, LFG (Nova Registry) has successfully grown its flagship TLD, .LINK, from approximately 125,000 to more than 300,000 domains under management. This growth has been driven by innovative distribution strategies, the expansion of registrar partnerships, and a granular pricing model that has enabled .LINK to remain competitively priced while avoiding the significant fee increases implemented by some other registry operators.
LFG’s experience in the domain name industry has reinforced one of the key lessons from the 2012 application round: long-term sustainability is strengthened through portfolio diversification. By spreading operational costs and mitigating revenue fluctuations across multiple TLDs, LFG is better positioned to withstand market volatility and invest in continued growth. Accordingly, LFG believes that even obtaining a subset of the TLDs for which it has applied will establish a diversified portfolio capable of supporting long-term economic stability, operational resilience, and sustainable growth.