.olympus Domain

Optical instruments, medical endoscopy, and imaging equipment framed the .olympus application in ICANN's 2012 New gTLD Program. Medical device manufacturers carry a provenance requirement beyond ordinary consumer hardware: cleaning protocols, sterilisation guidance, and procedure documentation affect patient safety directly, and clinical staff need certainty about where the instructions came from.

The string is also the name of a mountain of considerable mythological significance, and of places in several countries — a trademark colliding with a geographic and cultural term of international standing, a category the round handled inconsistently. The extension is not currently active in the DNS root zone and is not available for registration by any party.