And there is a lot of contention there. 10 separate apps for .art, 13 separate apps for .app, etc. Let the games begin.


On 13/06/2012, at 9:01 PM, William Drake wrote:

> Not to worry Chris, the fun is distributed…there's a Chinese application for 'Public Interest', the word 'Arab' could belong to the League of Arab States, etc..
> 
> 
> 
> On Jun 13, 2012, at 2:37 PM, CW Mail wrote:
> 
>> Well, it looks like a wholesale attempt to privatise hundreds of generic words in the English language.
>> 
>> CW
>> 
>> 
>> On 13 Jun 2012, at 14:22, William Drake wrote:
>> 
>>> http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en
>>> 
>>> ICANN's numbers a bit revealing and arguably sad.  Quoting the 1 pg overview:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 1930 applications, after refunds, for new generic top-level domains.
>>> 1846 of those are “standard” applications.  84 are designated as “community-based”.	
>>>   
>>> Of the 1930, 66 have designated themselves as geographic name applications.
>>> 116 applications are Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, using non-Latin scripts.
>>> 
>>> Just three applicants seek support through ICANN’s Applicant Support Program [that CS fought to get established.]
>>> 
>>> Applications  from 60 countries. Using ICANN’s definitions of the world’s regions:
>>> 
>>> 911 applications came from North America. 
>>> 675 from Europe. 
>>> 303 applications are from the Asia-Pacific region. 
>>> 24 are from Latin America and the Caribbean. 
>>> 17 from Africa.
>>> 
>>> Some domain names have been applied for by more than one applicant. There are 230 domain names for which at least two applications were submitted, involving a total of 751 applications.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:07 PM, William Drake wrote:
>>> 
>>>> For those interested in new gTLD, a couple thousand apps for new strings 
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/kits/reveal-day-video-13jun12-en.htm
>>>> 
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