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ICANN Reveals New TLD Application List

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Eighteen months after first announcing expansion of the TLD space, ICANN has published the list of new gTLDs that have been applied for. A cursory glance reveals that.app was pretty popular, with 13 applications. Now begins the seven month objection period (but you have to be a large organization to lodge any). angry tapir writes in with info on how duplicate applications will be resolved. From the article: "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has released statistics about the applications for new top-level domains — so-called 'dot word' domains along the lines of .web and .bank ... Two hundred and thirty of the domains proposed by applicants will become the subject of ICANN's dispute resolution process — which involves an attempt among applicants for the same domain to come to a joint arrangement, followed by an auction if that's unsuccessful. There were 751 conflicting applications for domains in total, which in many cases are likely to involve generic suffixes like .secure."

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  1. Interesting by SJHillman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Three entities want .sucks, four want .soccer, six want .law, five want .group, but only two want .sex

  2. TLD Squatters? by RotateLeftByte · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One name keeps appearing as the primary contact (but with different emails)

    Daniel Schindler

    TLD Squatters are born perhaps?

    It is also interesting that the like of Apple, IBM, Oracle and Microsoft all applied for their TLD's but HP didn't.

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    1. Re:TLD Squatters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

      You're kidding, right? Seriously though, .hp is two letters, something not allowed in this gTLD land rush. I believe .hp is reserved for ccTLD. Maybe Hewlett Packistania perhaps?

      This land rush seems stupid. As others have pointed out, will people really be searching these new gTLDs as opposed to just using a normal web search? Although, I would welcome region specific TLDs, like .seattle, .nyc, etc., because I don't see those as much different than being country based, provided we restricted registrations to those with addresses in the locale.

  3. Re:Useful change by vlm · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Also how many client/server scripts will break when the new TLDs arrive?

    Probably the unicode TLDs will be a larger challenge than .app

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  4. Re:So, remind me again, by __aaeihw9960 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If no one can remember what a companies TLD is, it will just drive more traffic to Google, as the masses will just search for the company name, then click the first link that pops up.

    Maybe this is a conspiracy to increase ad revenue for search giants. . . . . .