.mcp

Mission and Purpose: Charleston Road Registry (CRR), 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. This applied-for gTLD provides community members greater ability and security in categorizing their online AI interoperability, securely managing their digital presence, and offering a highly recognized web space to the public. The primary purpose of the applied-for gTLD is to provide a dedicated, recognizable, and trusted space that serves the clearly delineated Model Context Protocol (MCP) community. Towards that end, CRR is proposing a registration policy that has been reviewed and endorsed by LF Projects, LLC, the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), and Anthropic. CRR is wholly owned by Google, itself an MCP stakeholder and AAIF platinum member, and is a technology leader focused on improving how millions of users connect with information; CRR’s involvement enhances the TLD’s mission and purpose. Intended Registrants and Users: Charleston Road Registry intends to operate the applied-for gTLD as a community-based registry, operating exclusively for the benefit of the open Model Context Protocol community ecosystem. The goal is to allow ecosystem participants to comprehensively manage their domain space for community-related offerings. Registration will be restricted under a Registration Policy, and only verified community members will be authorized to register domains in accordance with such Policy. The intended registrants include AI developers, technology partners such as AAIF, The Linux Foundation, Anthropic, and other recognized contributors to the MCP ecosystem. The intended users of the applied-for gTLD are the general Internet public and enterprises who will navigate to these domains to securely access Model Context Protocol tools, documentation, and resources. Related Activities: The applied-for gTLD will provide community members with the ability to customize their domain names to signal to Internet users the precise, verified nature of their domains. The specialization goal of the applied-for gTLD is to extend the trusted Model Context Protocol community identity to each dedicated second-level domain space. This provides a centralized mechanism by which verified organizations can easily link their diverse initiatives, allowing them to actively manage their digital presence and coordinate the introduction of web spaces for AI integration 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 will spur further innovation by providing an accelerated platform for the seamless introduction of new community 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.

Mission and Purpose The .mcp namespace offers a recognizable web address built around "MCP," a term used for Model Context Protocol and associated with connecting artificial intelligence models to tools, data, services, and other resources. A name on .mcp gives a registrant a clear, memorable identity associated with that function and the ecosystem developing around it. The purpose is to make available an open namespace that organizations and individuals may use for an online presence related to MCP, model connectivity, integrations, developer tools, or other purposes for which they find the term relevant. An MCP server, developer resource, integration, service, documentation site, directory, or company's chosen destination on .mcp becomes a recognizable name. For registrants working with AI systems, .mcp offers an identity that can reflect the tools, services, and resources through which models interact with external systems. Other registrants may use .mcp for related technical resources or because the term suits the identity they want to create. The namespace does not depend on any particular implementation, model, platform, provider, or use case. Intended Registrants .mcp will operate on an open registration model, available to any registrant without eligibility restrictions and without conditions tied to any particular company, industry, technology, platform, or use. Registrants are likely to include, but are in no way limited to, developers and companies building MCP servers and integrations, artificial intelligence and software companies, platform and infrastructure providers, enterprises connecting models with internal or external systems, developer-tool providers, researchers, and open-source communities. Uses of .mcp are similarly open and are not limited to any particular model, protocol implementation, platform, provider, tool, or subject matter. Related Activities Supporting the Purpose - Awareness-building among the developer, artificial intelligence, and technology communities most likely to find the namespace useful - Broad registrar distribution to make .mcp names widely available - Registrant education on the availability and use of .mcp names - Community outreach through developer, artificial intelligence, integration, and open-source ecosystems - Responsible registry operations, including standard abuse mitigation and registration policies Sustainability .mcp is durable because it is tied to the continuing need for artificial intelligence systems to interact with tools, data, services, and other resources rather than to a single product, model, or vendor. As AI systems become more capable and are used across more applications, the mechanisms through which they connect with external systems are likely to remain an important part of how those systems are developed and operated. The relevance of the namespace therefore does not depend on any one model, platform, implementation, or provider. As the ecosystem of tools, integrations, services, and resources used with AI systems continues to develop, organizations and individuals may continue to find a clear, dedicated .mcp identity useful. OpenAI has the operational, technical, and financial capacity to run the registry over the long term, consistent with the commitments described elsewhere in this application, and will continue to adapt registrant services and policies as the space develops.

1. Mission and purpose: The mission of .mcp is to provide a concise three-letter namespace for the organizations, products and initiatives that identify with the letters MCP. Intended registrants include companies, professionals and projects whose names, credentials or products abbreviate to MCP across many fields (technology, certification, consulting, media and beyond), including developer ecosystems around protocols bearing the initials. Intended users are the customers and communities those registrants serve worldwide. Following delegation, the applicant will, as registry operator of the .mcp TLD, conduct a phased launch, implement all ICANN-required rights protection mechanisms, and distribute the TLD through ICANN-accredited registrars, supported by marketing and outreach to build awareness and adoption among the intended registrant and user groups. The TLD will be operated under a comprehensive DNS abuse prevention and mitigation framework covering the full range of abuse types, combining proactive and reactive controls. Abuse reports will be investigated and actioned in line with applicable policy requirements. The objective is to maintain .mcp as a high-quality, trusted namespace for registrants and end users. 2. Sustainability: Three-letter combinations are a permanently scarce and durably valuable class of identifiers: organizations across every sector abbreviate to three letters, independent of any technology cycle. Because the namespace serves the initials themselves rather than any single meaning of them, its purpose does not depend on the fortunes of any one field.

The mission of .mcp is to provide a relevant namespace for technology, software integrations, professional services, credentials and legitimate projects associated with the initials MCP.

The mission of .MCP is to provide a namespace associated with the applied-for string. The .MCP gTLD is intended to serve a broad range of registrants and users, including individuals, businesses, organizations, communities, projects, and other entities that identify with, relate to, or wish to be associated with the concept represented by the applied-for string. The purpose of .MCP is to enable registrants to establish online identities using domain names that correspond to this concept. To achieve this purpose, Tidal Case, LLC will make .MCP available for registration through registrars and other appropriate distribution channels; maintain a secure, stable, and reliable registry infrastructure; implement registration and operational policies that support the availability, security, and integrity of the namespace; and provide ongoing administration of the gTLD to enable registrants to register and use domain names within the namespace. The purpose of .MCP is sustainable over time because the applied-for string is broadly recognized and has broad applicability across a wide range of contexts. As society, technology, and methods of communication evolve, organizations and individuals will continue to establish online identities associated with the applied-for string.