Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and Dish Network.
.Movie was the last new gTLD scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in January and was apparently settled by private auction.
The other applicants that have now withdrawn their applications for .Movie were Radix, Famous Four, ARI Registry Services, and NU Dot Co LLC, the company that sold the .Co registry to Neustar for $109 million dollars.
As usual the price of the private auction was not disclosed but with this group of applicants we would not be surprised at all if the extension sold into the eight figures.
No one applied for .Movies.
There is a new gTLD for .Video which is likewise owned by Donuts.
No one applied for .Videos.
