Icann reveals new internet top-level domain name claims

[Blake]

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) said it had received 884 requests for new suffixes from the US, out of a total of 1,930.

By contrast there have been 40 such applications from the UK, 303 from the Asia-Pacific region and 17 from Africa.

Details of who applied for what will be revealed in London later.

Ahead of the press conference, Icann also revealed that 166 of the claims were for what it termed "internationalised domain names" - generic top-level-domains (gTLDs) that are not in the Latin alphabet.

"That means that if you're a person living in China or in somewhere in India then you might have the opportunity to use the internet purely in your native script," Icann's president and chief executive, Rod Beckstrom, told the BBC.

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[carob]

And it looks like they will still shoot themselves in the foot with digital archery - even their own wiki admits there are issues at http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Digital_Archery

Maybe Cupid will step in and do the job?

 

[silentg]

Here are the similar GTLDs: I wouldn't want all these approved. It would be a big mess.

Auto
Autos
Gift
Gifts
Host
Hosting
Hotel
Hotels
Insure
Insurance
LifeInsurance
AutoInsurance
Kid
Kids
Loan
Loans
Market
Markets
Property
Properties
Review
Reviews
Shop
Shopping
Sport
Sports
Tour
Tours
Web
Webs
Wed
Wedding

 

[accent]

It totally astounds me:
a. How much money is flying around this thing, and
b. How little attention this is getting at Namepros.

 

[Pryda]

It totally astounds me:
a. How much money is flying around this thing, and
b. How little attention this is getting at Namepros.

a. 1,930 applications x 185k usd = 357,050,000 usd (just the application fee)
b. meh..

 

[JB Lions]

"How little attention this is getting at Namepros."

I think it gets about as much attention as it deserves. It's basically a fool's gold list. It's getting done to death out on the blogs. Plus, there are more than a few threads here at NP on this right now, lil all over the place.

Beside this thread, there are:

Crappiest New TLDS applied for?

List of all new GTLD Applications by popularity

Unofficial List of new gtlds being reviewed

40,000 or more new gTLD's such as .web, .google and .lol in a few years from now?

Google to apply for .lol

Demand Media invests $18 million in new TLDs

probably some more, so it's getting attention

 

[Kate]

Exactly, domain investors have little interest because there is not much money to be made on our side of the fence.

 

[carob]

It totally astounds me:
a. How much money is flying around this thing, and
b. How little attention this is getting at Namepros.

No one here is buying a TLD I guess.

Actually I now think some of the new TLDs are delusional domaining on a grand scale - people just grabbing a TLD because, well, it might make money somehow someday. The way herds of domainers grab domains that mostly never sell.

Brands I can understand because they offer a trust and visual advertising advantage, but the rest is a big big maybe.

 

[accent]

But ... But ... but .........
.Duck is going to wipe out .Com, for sure!

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Yeah, the blogs are full of it

Thing is, this will have a really big effect on domaining - I wonder how $350 million compares to the total (reseller) value of all existing domains? And note that the buyers have raised about a million per TLD (average) for publicity and expenses. So we are seeing something like a billion dollars moving in next door to our CNO domains. Talk about an elephant in the room!

There is no way I see to gauge the effects at this early point. Money will go to registering the new extensions - not as much as most of the buyers hope, I suspect, but that still means registrants, insiders and newbee domainers have less money for .Com. On the other hand, confusion can mean a flight to the known (.Com .Net .Org), and if this thing melts into a pile of legal squables (very possible) then .Com will be stronger than before.

Indeed all the publicity could mean a huge influx of new domainer-wannabees, many of whom will eventually migrate to .Com.

The one certainty is that the domain game changed today, big time.

 

[silentg]

This whole thing reminds me of the domain landrush when new cctld/gtld launches. On the other end of the table, some domainers are registering worthless domains related to the new GTLDs.

 

[JB Lions]

I was just reading the comments over at Huffington Post - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/13/icann-apple-sex-among-suf_n_1592839.html
going as I expected, not good. So many are going to lose money on this, it's funny. Just not going to fly.

 

[JPC-Sabrina]

I agree that it isn't anything to rush into at this time. .com .net and .org are impressed into our minds. The new embrace will take a good bit of time to trickle down and become more standard. I agree that the changes may for a while make the standards even stronger and more desirable.