Domeniu .clothing is a proposed TLD in ICANN's New gTLD Program. The applicant is Donuts (Steel Lake, LLC).[1] The proposed application succeeded and was delegated to the Root Zone on 6 November, 2013.[2] Contract Signed On 27 August 2013, Donuts received a Registry Agreement signed by ICANN for .clothing after passing the Initial Evaluation.[3] Delegation and Availability .clothing was delegated to the Root Zone of the DNS on November 6, 2013, completing the successful application for the string. Donuts had 9 string delegated to the root on that day, including .camera, .ventures, .lighting, .singles, .voyage, .guru, .holdings and .equipment.[2] Donuts announced that its first 7 gTLDs, including .clothing, .bike, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles, and .ventures, would have a Sunrise period starting November 26, 2013 and closing January 24, 2014. Interestingly, Donuts said they will not hold a Landrush period for any of these 7 domains, but go immediately to general availability on January 29, 2013.[4] Application Excerpts This application is one of many Donuts apps that share a generic boilerplate. The response to qusetion #18 is excerpted in part below: "ABOUT DONUTS’ RESOURCES Donuts’ financial resources are extensive. The company has raised more than US$100 million from a number of capital sources including multiple multi-billion dollar venture capital and private equity funds, a top-tier bank, and other well-capitalized investors. Should circumstances warrant, Donuts is prepared to raise additional funding from current or new investors. Donuts also has in place pre-funded, Continued Operations Instruments to protect future registrants. These resource commitments mean Donuts has the capability and intent to launch, expand and operate its TLDs in a secure manner, and to properly protect Internet users and rights-holders from potential abuse. .. THIS TLD This TLD is attractive and useful to end-users as it better facilitates search, self-expression, information sharing and the provision of legitimate goods and services. Along with the other TLDs in the Donuts family, this TLD will provide Internet users with opportunities for online identities and expression that do not currently exist. In doing so, the TLD will introduce significant consumer choice and competition to the Internet namespace – the very purpose of ICANN’s new TLD program. This TLD is a generic term and its second level names will be attractive to a variety of Internet users.