Charity shop depreciation of fixtures (clothing racks, bookshelves, counters, etc.), operating costs (maintenance, municipal service fees, electricity, heat, telephone, limited advertising) and the building lease or mortgage. Charity shops may also be referred to as thrift stores (in the United States and Canada), hospice shops, resale shops (a term that in the United States also covers consignment shops), and opportunity (or op) shops (in Australia and New Zealand). One of the earliest charity shops was set up by the Wolverhampton Society for the Blind (now called the Beacon Centre for the Blind) in 1899 to sell goods made by blind people to
.shop .shop string in ICANN's year 2000 new-TLD round. Applications were also received for the extensions ".shopping", ".store", ".buy", and names with similar meanings in non-Latin languages, and ICANN indicated that they would not create extensions that will confuse users. This so-called "string similarity" is an unresolved issue in the new gTLD process, and is to complement dispute resolution. in January, 2016 GMO Registry of Japan prevailed with a winning bid of 410.5 million (USD) .shop .shop is a Top Level Domain (TLD) for the Internet, that was launched in September 2016. Nine companies including Google, Amazon and Famous Four Media