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 sharing information, collaborative consumption, shared resources, and cooperative networking. These uses may include but are not limited to applications such as file sharing platforms, peer-to-peer marketplaces, and open-source collaborative workspaces. 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 sharing-related collaborative 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 technology developers, peer-to-peer service providers, and collaborative economy startups. The intended users of the applied-for gTLD are the general Internet public and consumers who will navigate to these domains to securely access shared resource ecosystems, cooperative networking tools, open-source projects, and collaborative 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 digital sharing 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 collaborative and peer-to-peer networking 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 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 .share top-level domain represents the broad, everyday activity of sharing: making content, information, items, spaces, or costs available to others. People share photos and documents, split expenses, lend tools, offer rides, and share updates every day.
Intercap Registry proposes to operate .share 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 distribute, exchange, or make things available to others. Intended users are members of the general public taking part in those exchanges.
Intercap Registry will make .share 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: sharing content and resources is a standing feature of websites, businesses, and organizations across every sector, and 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.
The mission and purpose of this TLD is to expand consumer choice by a space dedicated to the growing "sharing economy." Registrants and users will be providers and users of all kinds of shareable items, from files to cars and tools. It will be sustainable because ownership is becoming too expensive and sharing is increasingly possible, convenient, and safe.
The mission and purpose of .share is to give individuals, businesses, and platforms an open, generic namespace for anything built around sharing — file and content sharing services, sharing-economy marketplaces (from shared vehicles and spaces to shared equipment), and forwarding social media content.
The applicant will drive adoption of .share through public relations outreach to sharing-economy and technology media, direct marketing to sharing-economy startups, community platforms, and content-sharing services, partnership development with file-sharing services, marketplace platforms, and community organizations to secure anchor registrants, and coordinated promotion through the registrar channel to extend distribution and drive registration volume.
This purpose is sustainable over time because sharing resources, content, and access is a fundamental economic and social behavior that predates the internet and has repeatedly found new expression across technology shifts — from early file-sharing networks to social media to the modern sharing economy.
The mission of .SHARE is to provide an accessible namespace for individuals, businesses, organizations, communities, projects, and other entities that wish to communicate sharing, collaboration, exchange, participation, or common interest. The purpose of .SHARE is to enable registrants to establish distinctive online identities through domain names that reflect the concept represented by the applied-for string. To achieve this purpose, SUFFIX INC. will make .SHARE available for registration through accredited registrars and other appropriate distribution channels; maintain 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 .SHARE is sustainable over time because “share” is a broadly recognized term with enduring relevance across personal, commercial, cultural, technological, educational, and community contexts. It is commonly associated with sharing information, media, resources, ideas, experiences, products, services, and interests, while remaining flexible enough to serve new forms of exchange and collaboration as society, technology, and methods of communication evolve.