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ICANN Reveals Regional Winners of New gTLDs

Posted by timothy on from the the-envelope-please dept.

hypnosec writes "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved and released a list of domain names as per its new global Top Level Domain plans. A total of 27 domain names have been cleared for use by ICANN, and all of them are non-English domain names. Consisting of Chinese and Arabic names, the list of domain names seems to be mostly for regional companies, prominent among which are the .Qatartelecom and .Mozaic domains."

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  1. Effort and time is not the same as accomplishment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Announcing the development through a press release, ICANN reiterated the amount of efforts and time that have been spent for the development and implementation of policies to bring about innovation and diversity in the Domain Name System.

    Further confirms that diversity is another word for stupidity.

  2. Re:Effort and time is not the same as accomplishme by Ubi_NL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I thought it was just a cash grab operation by ICANN

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  3. great antispam, please try to send me some spam by Nikademus · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I tried to even type an email using one of those TLD in this comment and failed, now explain me how that will work under other current software implementations. This is just a big fail, like most IDN. Anyone can type [a-Z], but not most of those TLDs.

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