dotgay
  • about about .gay

    Committed to realizing tangible financial and strategic benefits for the LGBT community, dotGAY LLC will fund nonprofit LGBT organizations while also safeguarding key community domains based on important generic keywords.

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  • mission about dot gay

    To make .gay an exemplary beacon of social entrepreneurship and an empowering resource for helping people live their lives better based on their own conscience and improved access to global resources in the community.

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  • giving giving .gay

    Our business model calls for non-profit LGBT client organizations to receive 67% of the profit generated from the sale of .gay domain names. We look forward to being held accountable for "giving back" to the community, by administering .gay in a way that ensures innovation, fairness and long-term success.

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  • community community .gay

    .gay will help us stand up and be counted. As a community whose presence can be aggregated and quantified, we will all be in a better position to be understood and to create real change.

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  • support support .gay

    As the success of .gay depends on garnering broad support from YOU and the many diverse constituencies that comprise the worldwide LGBT community, we welcome your participation.

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  • endorse endorse .gay

    We seek endorsement and invite comments from all interested parties. We look forward to being held accountable for "giving back" to the community, by administering .gay in a way that ensures innovation, fairness and success.

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  • solidarity solidarity .gay

    In a sense, we are one community because we have a mutual interest in rights and protections that others take for granted.

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  • .gay

    If approved, .gay would exist as a so-called "Top-Level Domain" (TLD), the most well-known example of which is .com, and individuals, businesses and organizations would be able to register domain names ending in .gay. In addition to .gay, the governing body of Internet domain space, ICANN, is considering TLD proposals for .eco, .sports, .shop and others.

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  • mission

    To make .gay an exemplary beacon of social entrepreneurship and an empowering resource for helping people live their lives based on their own conscience. The .gay domain space requires conscientious stewardship and cannot be operated as just a “marketing platform” or a piece of real estate to be subdivided based solely on economic imperatives.

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  • giving

    Our business model calls for non-profit LGBT client organizations to receive 67% of the profit generated from the sale of .gay domain names. The funds would be channeled through a tax-exempt foundation operated separately from dotgay LLC. Decisions about how to distribute funding would be in the hands of an independent board of directors.

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  • why?

    Expanding the Internet domain name space promotes greater innovation and choice and .gay can serve as a common platform for enhancing the resources, visibility and solidarity of the LGBT community. As a community whose presence can be aggregated and quantified, we will all be in a better position to be understood and to create real change.

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  • endorsements

    The success of .gay depends on garnering broad support from the many constituencies that comprise the worldwide LGBT community. We seek endorsement and invite comments from all interested parties. We look forward to being held accountable for “giving back” to the community, by administering .gay in a way that ensures innovation, fairness and success.

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  • dotgay ®

    Formed to garner support for a .gay TLD and advance a mandate for delivering tangible financial and strategic benefits to the community that will inhabit the .gay space. dotgay’s proposal is based on 1) channeling two-thirds of the profits from the sale of .gay domain names to nonprofit LGBT client organizations, and 2) safeguarding key community domains.

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By working together, we become stronger.As an exemplary beacon of social entrepreneurship, .gay can become an empowering space that recognizes and celebrates diversity, while also serving as a rallying point for an entire community.

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To date, dotgay LLC has received the support of more than 100 organizations, businesses and media representatives from the LGBT community, including those who contribute to the efforts of the United Nations on behalf of LGBT people worldwide. Contact us to learn how you can support the .gay initiative.Contact dotgay

endorsements .gay

Contact us to learn how you can support the .gay initiative.As the success of .gay will depend on garnering broad support from the many diverse constituencies that comprise the worldwide LGBT community, we seek endorsement and invite comments from all interested parties. We look forward to being held accountable for “giving back” to the community, by administering .gay in a way that ensures innovation, fairness and long-term success.View All Endorsements