ICANN anounces ten new TLD proposals

[spietreser]

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-19mar04.htm

Possible new TLD's are:
.asia
.cat
.jobs
.mail
.mobi
.post
.tel
.travel
.xxx

Which one will be the most popular?

 

[Digital Address]

Have not heard a thing about this "Announcement" until this thread: "The applications were submitted in response to a request for proposals process that was initiated by ICANN on 15 December 2003. The last day to submit applications was 16 March 2004. A public comment period will open 1- 30 April 2004." So thanks very much for the info.

(Would have liked it very much if the answer to your question was going to be .sex instead of .xxx!?)

 

[bidawinner]

.xxx
.travel

..but i wouldnt expect anything until at least summer/fall of 05 ..

 

[Anthony Ng]

Which one will be the most popular?

Definitely .xxx, followed probably by .mail, .post and .mobi.

 

[Bionic]

.mail
.mobi
.post
.tel

See they're bowing down to Microsoft and Nokia for the .mobi
and duping new.net giving .xxx elsewhere!

 

[Ovicide]

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-19mar04.htm

Which one will be the most popular?

Which of them will be "The Next dot COM"

 

[OnSpec]

.mail
.xxx

 

[NameTower]

.mail
.xxx

yep

 

[opportunitymagic]

I like the .mail extn. This will probably harm the mediocre sales of the new.net etns.

 

[Deleted member 4749]

wotajoke

 

[think]

.xxx makes sense .............kids.us doesn't.............dot kid would have.................
I could live without the rest of them...........................

 

[namedropper]

They are all pretty lousy. The .xxx one would make the most sense, but of course since it does make sense they'll never do it.

The .mail one sounds like it might be reasonable, but then I see the sponsors are setting it up as an anti-spam solution and not new domain space. It looks like you could only register third level domains, like dnforum.com.mail, and then only if you already have the version without the .mail at the end. Hrm. Well, if it works as an anti-spam solution that'd be cool, otherwise there's no point to it... and you'd think whatever technological solution they have in mind could just as easily be done through some other name, like dnforum.com.notspammail.net.

 

[.com.net.org]

.asia?

then .europe, .america, .australia, .africa?

this one can't make it.

 

[Anthony Ng]

.asia?

then .europe, .america, .australia, .africa?

this one can't make it.

We DO have .eu, do we?

 

[adoptabledomains]

These are all SPONSORED domains. It will remain to be seen who will be able to register them and for what purpose.

http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-19mar04.htm

I read part of the .mail proposal, and you will NOT be able to use a name.mail domain for your regular website, and it will not even be seen in the email address. It's a behind the scenes email address (pseudo protocol) for spam free email. If you now own domain.com, you would send spam-free email from an address domain.com.mail. it would appear you could only "register" a name you already own in another tld. The TLD is sponsored by Spamhaus.org.

It also appears .cat will only be sites in Catalan language, whatever that is. I don't suspect they will be allowing kitty.cat for an english site.

.post is a postal office controlled domain. Here's a sample of their naming
Convention: -<3-letter-code>.post
Examples: ottawacentral-can.post, marnelavallee-fra.post,
washingtonsouth-usa.post, jakartacentral-ind.post, pharmaprixquebec-can.post,
apcmorillon-fra.post
http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/post.htm

Lots of restrictions in these sTLD's.

 

[adoptabledomains]

.mail
.mobi
.post
.tel

It appears from reading the proposals, that only .mobi in your list will be a TLD in the normal sense. The .mail TLD is a behind the scenes domain, .post is third level after the country and related to the postal system, and one .tel proposal is very similar to the enum proposals from the past using only international telephone numbering in reverse with dots between each letter.

Most are unconventional use of the DNS.

 

[Nameable]

.tel - very interesting:
http://192.246.69.231/jeff/personal/archives/000644.html

Jeff Pulver (pulver.com) is a big name in IP Telephony/VOIP/SIP

and a bit of competition from http://www.telname.com/ who looks to be a bit more well-organized (at least their site is nicer and dedicated to the tld).

 

[hotdog_pk]

new.net are currently allowing registration of .xxx. i mentioned in a few weeks ago, i think.

does this mean that they have actually been approved?

 

[adoptabledomains]

new.net are currently allowing registration of .xxx. i mentioned in a few weeks ago, i think.

does this mean that they have actually been approved?

None of the new proposals have been approved. New.net did not even put in a proposal. If you have one from new.net and .xxx approved by ICANN, you are basically screwed.

 

[NameTower]

Yeah,
new.net could lose a lot of customers if people start to realise that they arent real TLD's