.scholarships Domain

The .scholarships string names an entire education funding category, delegated on a restricted basis through ICANN's 2012 New gTLD Program rather than opened for registration. It sits among the round's closed generics, and the constituency it forecloses is unusually broad: universities, foundations, government agencies, and charitable trusts all describe their funding programs with this word.

There is no registration channel, pricing, or aftermarket for .scholarships domains. The category also carries a real fraud problem — advance-fee scams and data-harvesting sites posing as scholarship administrators target applicants who are young, filing detailed financial information for the first time, and reaching sites through search. A namespace signalling verified sources would have addressed that directly.