Charity shop one illustration of their support for the charity sector and the role of charity shops in raising funds for charities. Charities can apply for discretionary relief on the remaining 20%, which is an occasional source of criticism from retailers which have to pay in full. In Australia, major national opportunity shop chains include the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store (trading as Vinnies) which operate 627 shops across Australia, Anglicare Shops, that currently operate in 19 locations across Sydney and the Illawarra also various locations around Australia, the Salvation Army (trading as Salvos), the Red Cross, MS Australia, and the
.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