Affiliations: Operates .cloud, delegated in 2015; IANA records the sponsoring organisation as ARUBA PEC S.p.A.; Says .cloud has over 500,000 registrations; Won .cloud at private auction in the 2012 round.
The Italian operator of .cloud says it applied for 39 top-level domain strings, primary and replacement together, and that many of them conflict with strings other applicants have already announced.
28 of these strings have another public claimant: .bit, .human, .moon, .super, .tag, .zen, .zzz, .aid, .ask, .easy, .fix, .gen, .gym, .happy, .hello, .kit, .lab, .mars, .max, .omg, .pop, .sign, .yes, .all, .bnb, .cart, .demo, .genius.
Claimed: .aid, .all, .ask, .beta, .bit, .bnb, .cart, .ciao, .daily, .demo, .easy, .fix, .gaming, .gen, .genius, .gym, .happy, .hello, .hola, .human, .kit, .lab, .mars, .max, .moon, .omg, .pec, .pop, .rem, .roma, .sign, .sito, .super, .tag, .tex, .vps, .yes, .zen, .zzz
The company applied for the following strings as primary or replacement: aid, all, ask, beta, bit, bnb, cart, ciao, daily, demo, easy, fix, gaming, gen, genius, gym, happy, hello, hola, human, kit, lab, mars, max, moon, omg, pec, pop, rem, roma, sign, sito, super, tag, tex, vps, yes, zen, zzz
Source: Exclusive: Aruba applies for 39 top level domain strings · Domain Name Wire
