ICANN has opened an online forum to discuss ten applications for new sponsored top-level domains (sTLD's), including .asia, .cat (for Catalonia), .jobs, .mail, .mobi (for mobile devices), .post and .xxx, as well as two applications for .tel. ICANN has also mentioned that it will funnel "spam and off-topic postings" into special archives, although it is not clear what criteria the organization will use to determine whether a given message should be placed in such categories.

See
http://www.internetdemocracyproject.org/#highlights

Sincerely,
Christopher Chiu
Technology Policy Analyst
American Civil Liberties Union