How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
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Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
#2Seriously - how did that go down?
Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
#3> The Ismaili Imamat is a supra-national entity, representing the succession of Imams since the time of the Prophet Muhammad.
(https://ismaili.imamat/#introduction)
The Aga Khan is the leader of the Ismaili Imamat.
They have as good a claim to a TLD as Berlin, if not more.
Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
#4the icann wiki has some articles for these:
https://icannwiki.org/.agakhan
Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
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Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
#6All it takes for a TLD these days is a vaugely-legitimate use and about a million dollars[1]. This isn't hard for a large company or state actor to fund; Why would a
mid-large religion not be able to?
Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
#7.calvinklein, .homedepot - how do these things get created, can you just go to namecheap.com and make your own tld?
Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
#8Presumably way the same as .google and all the other special-purpose organization-specific domains.
Blame ICANN for allowing any public or private organization who can meet the requirements to buy and operate a gTLD back in 2012: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs...
And as per another comment in this thread, they’re doing another round of this in 2026: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45068328
Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
#9.calvinklein, .homedepot - how do these things get created, can you just go to namecheap.com and make your own tld?
you pay ICANN a hefty fee.
Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
#10.calvinklein, .homedepot - how do these things get created, can you just go to namecheap.com and make your own tld?
If you pay ICANN hundreds of thousands of dollars, you can get basically any .word domain.
I believe the only actual requirement is that it has to be 3 characters or longer, as two characters are reserved for countries.