.design
It was proposed in ICANN's new generic top-level domain (gTLD) program, and became available to the general public on May 12, 2015.In September 2014, Portland, Oregon-based Top Level Design (TLD) won the right to operate the .design top-level domain after beating out six other applicants in a private auction.According to TLD's CEO Ray King, winning the auction was "very important" and one of the company's top priorities, evidenced by its name.[3] CentralNic provides backend services through an exclusive distribution agreement and shares in the global revenues from .design domain names.Ben Crawford, CentralNic's CEO, said of the top-level domain, "It has impressive commercial potential, and it will be adopted more quickly than many other TLDs as it caters, among many other groups, to one of the best-informed professions on new Internet developments – website designers".