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# [.furry — A Top-Level Domain For Our Community](https://www.dotfurry.org/)

Furries make the internet go, and we need infrastructure that belongs to us. You may remember around 2012 that there were suddenly more ways for our websites to end, including .social, .engineering, and the ever popular .dog. We believe the time has come to add .furry to this esteemed list.

These endings are called generic Top Level Domains (gTLD for short). ICANN, the organization in charge of this canonical list, has begun the process of creating a new wave of gTLDs. Getting a new TLD approved is an expensive affair — on the order of $250,000. That’s where we have good news.

Our hackerspace and non-profit, Pawprint Prototyping, has been accepted to a new program ICANN has introduced called the Applicant Support Program (ASP). This program aims to provide access to smaller organizations like us, who would normally be unable to participate in gTLD creation due to prohibitive expense. Under this program, a large majority of the typical fees are waived. Which may leave you asking why we’re crowdfunding.

The ASP reduces gTLD application fees by 75%. We’re raising $90,000 to cover the remaining application fees, legal costs, and operational expenses required to bring .furry to life.

100% of the profit from .furry will be used to fund:

  • - Furry and LGBTQIA+ organizations and spaces.
  • - The ongoing educational mission of our non-profit hackerspace.
  • - Future development focused on digital sovereignty within our community.

As a non-profit, Pawprint Prototyping has no shareholders — no one trying to bleed customers dry to line pockets. The foundational structure of our organization requires that we use profits to better the communities that we serve.

## Perks

When you back our campaign, even at the foundational tier, you’ll get a voucher good for one year of .furry domain registration at wholesale cost. Multiple vouchers can be combined for a single domain or split arbitrarily across multiple. You’ll save on initial registration and directly support the launch of the TLD.

Contribute at one of these levels to secure your perks:

## Why .furry?

“Furry” has always been a part of the internet. Before the World Wide Web even existed, we were finding our own niches in MUDs, Usenet, and IRC. Our goal with .furry is to cement our place in the foundations of the internet while providing a domain that our community can congregate within.

Over time, the internet has grown more and more centralized and commoditized. Communities that previously found a home on the internet have been increasingly marginalized — forced to hop from platform to platform, bending to the whims of those seeking to profit from their engagement. While we can’t magically address restrictive platforms, we hope to provide another step towards digital sovereignty within our community. The .furry TLD will provide an inseparable niche for our community while helping fund further development.

The .furry domain will have open registration. This means that anyone may purchase and operate a domain under .furry — individuals, artists, conventions, community hubs, and companies alike. Open registration also allows for entities outside of our community to register a domain, helping us fund further development within our community.

## Who We Are

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