.dd .dd .dd was the assigned country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). It was chosen based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the German Democratic Republic, the letters coming from the German name of the country: '. In accordance with IANA policy, .dd was therefore available to be assigned as the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for East Germany. However, this was never done, and so .dd was never added to the root nameservers. Its only use was internally at the universities of Jena and Dresden. With the reunification of Germany, East Germany became
Top Level Design would "help shape [the] new era" of top-level domains, saying they were "going to change the complexion of the Internet, at least the naming complexion of the Internet, quite a bit." TLD is the domain name registry for .wiki, .ink and .design. It is no longer in contention for .group, or .style, following private auctions. As of November 2014, the company is still in contention for the gTLDs .art, .blog, .gay and .llc. On November 7, 2013, ICANN and TLD entered into a "Registry Agreement", officially allowing the company to operate as the registry for .wiki. ICANN and TLD entered