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New GTLDs Law Strategy for Business

By David K. Mitnick
June 02, 2013

ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is a non-profit organization that runs the main root zone of the Internet. They have spent almost a decade planning and studying how to expand the Internet. This plan, otherwise known as the New gTLD (Global Top Level Domain) Program will expand the 22 existing top level domains (TLDs) (.com, .net, and .info) to well over a thousand TLDs within the next year. This expansion comes as part of what ICANN perceives as its mandate to create a truly international Internet space that is a reflection of the global Internet community. The new TLDs will include internationalized domain names that, for the first time, will be in non-Roman characters, meaning there will be TLDs in Chinese, Japanese and Arabic.

Beginning in January 2012, ICANN started accepting applications for new TLDs from applicants interested in owning and running a TLD. (For background and history of the TLD expansion, see, “From Dot-Com to Dot-Whatever,” from the July 2011 issue of Internet Law & Strategy.) Although ICANN estimated that it would receive about 500 applications from interested parties, when it opened the application period it received over 1,900.

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