ICANN Reveals New TLD Application List

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ICANN Reveals New TLD Application List

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @12:50AM from the introducing-slashdot-dot-slashdot dept.

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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Interesting by SJHillman · 2012-06-13 01:00 · Score: 4, Interesting

Three entities want .sucks, four want .soccer, six want .law, five want .group, but only two want .sex
1. Re:Interesting by Chrisq · 2012-06-13 01:20 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  ... only two want .sex
  I hope that they can come to some arrangement
TLD Squatters? by RotateLeftByte · 2012-06-13 01:01 · 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 SJHillman · 2012-06-13 01:06 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  He was prepared and thus registered for everything on Schindler's List...
2. Re:TLD Squatters? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-13 01:21 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Nope - he is a squatter for a new squatting company called Donuts!
  http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Daniel_Schindler
  http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Donuts
3. Re:TLD Squatters? by Necroman · 2012-06-13 01:27 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Or you go to the website of the email address: http://donuts.co/
  From their Team page:
  
  Dan Schindler
  Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing
  From their about us page:
  
  Donuts is a domain name registry bringing variety and choice to Internet naming.
  The company was founded by long-standing industry executives with experience in registry and registrar operations and industry regulation, and who have successfully launched top-level domains (TLDs), built industry-leading companies, and brought value and choice to the domain name marketplace.
  Donuts has applied for more than 300 TLDs and intends to secure and operate each. The company is well-resourced by substantial funding from multi-billion dollar private equity and venture capital funds.
  Looking at their investors, they have a lot of VC money. Looks like a startup trying to cash in on this. Though, it could be looked at in another light, that they are trying to provide a multitude of TLDs for people to use.
  A news story about the company: http://www.geekwire.com/2012/seattle-area-startup-raised-100m-series-financing/
  They have $100 million in funding.
  
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4. Re:TLD Squatters? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-06-13 01:57 · 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.
Re:Useful change by SJHillman · 2012-06-13 01:03 · Score: 4, Insightful

Considering that many users still put "www.apple.com" in the Google search box rather than the address bar, then choose Apple from the list of results.... I don't think it will be a problem. Besides, with people visiting sites with foreign TLDs, such as .ca, .au, .pl, .ru, .cn - I don't think they'll be too overwhelmed with choices other than .com, .net and .org.
Re:Useful change by vlm · 2012-06-13 01:05 · 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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Re:So, remind me again, by grommit · 2012-06-13 01:06 · Score: 4, Funny

So we're back to AOL keywords is it?
Re:So, remind me again, by __aaeihw9960 · 2012-06-13 01:19 · 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. . . . . .
Re:So, remind me again, by SJHillman · 2012-06-13 01:36 · Score: 4, Funny

Considering WWF rebranded to WWE about 7 years ago, I don't think that will be a problem. Although panda wrestling would be awesome.