.weatherchannel domain extension

.weatherchannel is a brand generic top level domain owned and operated by The Weather Company, LLC, a subsidiary of International Business Machines. It is a strict dot brand TLD, meaning the registry restricts registrations to The Weather Company and its affiliates. You cannot buy a .weatherchannel domain for your own use; it exists solely for the company's internal and promotional web addresses. The TLD was delegated in January 2016. IBM acquired the domain from The Weather Channel, LLC in a transfer that was processed in July 2017. The registry runs on a standard set of name servers and offers an RDAP lookup service. It is a closed, single entity namespace with no public registration options.