.kone Domain

Lifts, escalators, and building access systems framed the .kone application in ICANN's 2012 New gTLD Program. Vertical transportation equipment is safety-critical and maintained under regulatory inspection regimes, which gives service documentation, certification records, and parts provenance a legal weight absent from most industrial categories.

The string is also the ordinary Finnish word for machine, one of several 2012-round applications where a brand name doubles as common vocabulary in the applicant's home language — a collision that raises the same questions as English dictionary-word strings but attracted far less attention. The extension is not currently active in the DNS root zone and is not available for registration by any party.