.multichoice Domain Information
Pay-television and video entertainment across Africa framed the .multichoice application in ICANN's 2012 New gTLD Program. It was the platform-level string in a substantial family of related media applications filed by a single broadcasting group, sitting above the individual channel brands in the same portfolio.
Pay-television in markets with widespread unauthorised redistribution carries a sharper anti-piracy case than most: subscribers reaching for a streaming source have little basis for distinguishing an official service from a pirate one, and subscription accounts hold payment credentials. The extension is not currently active in the DNS root zone and is not available for registration by any party.