No support for U.S. proposal for domain name veto

[DotSauce]

Freedom of expression prevails. Will new gTLDs be anything goes?

I know geographic names and trademarks will obviously have some regulation. What other restrictions might be in place?

The Obama administration has failed in its bid to allow it and other governments to veto future top-level domain names, a proposal before ICANN that raised questions about balancing national sovereignty with the venerable Internet tradition of free expression.

A group of nations rejected (PDF) that part of the U.S. proposal last week, concluding instead that governments can offer nonbinding "advice" about controversial suffixes such as .gay but will not receive actual veto power...

Full story at CNET:
No support for U.S. proposal for domain name veto - CNET News

 

[Archangel]

I view these other extensions as vanity, anyway. So it's honestly not a big thing to me.