.Tech is a

generic top-level domain Generic top-level domains (gTLDs) are one of the categories of top-level domains (TLDs) maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for use in the Domain Name System of the Internet. A top-level domain is the last level of ev ...

(gTLD) of the

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(DNS) used in the

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. The name is truncated from ''technology''.

History

In 2012,

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announced it would be expanding the range of domain extensions to further organize the internet with .tech being requested by multiple parties. Six companies including

Google Google LLC (, ) is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial ...

, Uniregistry, Donuts (Lone Moon, LLC), STRAAT Investments, and Top Level Domain Holdings Ltd, filed applications for this TLD in one of the first

New gTLD application public auctions. The .tech TLD was launched in March 2015. It is currently owned and operated by Radix, founded by

Bhavin Turakhia Bhavin Turakhia (born 21 December 1979), is an entrepreneur, and the founder of Titan, Flock, Radix, CodeChef, and Zeta. In 2016, Bhavin, a billionaire, was ranked as the 95th richest person in India, along with his brother Divyank Turakhia, ...

. In 2017, a .tech domain name won an SEO ranking contest. As of August 2019, startup companies using the .tech domain had raised over $2 billion in

venture capital Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to start-up company, startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in ...

. The gTLD partners with

GitHub GitHub () is a Proprietary software, proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides access control, bug trackin ...

offering one year of free registration as part of its Student Developer Pack.

Usage

The .tech gTLD is used by an array of websites in the technology sector with companies like

Cisco Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, s ...

and

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...

launching sites that use the extension. Other notable uses of the TLD include the

Consumer Electronics Show CES (; formerly an initialism for Consumer Electronics Show) is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). Held in January at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Winchester, Nevada, United States, the event typi ...

(CES) and

Viacom Viacom, an abbreviation of Video and Audio Communications, may refer to: * Viacom (1952–2005), a former American media conglomerate * Viacom (2005–2019), a former company spun off from the original Viacom * Viacom18, a joint venture between Pa ...

along with startups such as Aurora Innovation, Flit, and Innoviz.

References

External links

.tech Domains
Official site
.tech
on ICANNWiki {{DEFAULTSORT:Tech Internet properties established in 2015 Generic top-level domains