There's a little bit more to it than that! We did indeed launch our first TLD, .みんな, in early 2014, around 8½ years ago, but the team itself has existed for around a decade. There was plenty of work to do prior to launching our first TLD, namely, writing the software to run our TLDs (Nomulus, available at https://nomulus.foo ), and of course, all the admin work required to apply for and delegate the TLDs in the first place. ICANN's first round of new gTLD expansion occurred in 2012, and the second round ... hasn't happened yet :(