Quote from Jeff Neuman (VP Neustar) in
Amsterdam last week: Nearly all of those applying for Closed gTLDs would fail to
qualify based on his reading of the Code of Conduct.
Article show concern around the world for TLDs which are generic
strings/words of an entire industry or business (DOCS, BOOK,
SEARCH, ANTIVIRUS, WATCHES) being dominated and controlled by a
single industry/business (and only one of many competitors).
that's being a registry to monoplize a word, not to offer registry
services.
A quote from Karen Lentz (ICANN legal staff): "Under the current rules, there's nothing that would prevent the use of closed generics, which is focused on the issue of who can register a name."