Thousands Of New Land Rushes To Come Thanks To ICANN!
ICANN has approved a plan in Paris to add virtually unlimited new TLDs including those with non-ASCII characters. This is likely to lead to big changes in the domain space in the years to come with some big companies probably acquiring their own TLD .
The plan enables failed registries to be replaced by a new registry that takes over the TLD from a failed registry. Registrants should be protected from losing their names when this occurs. However, if a new registry is not found quickly, a TLD can be closed and the TLD removed from the root. A new entity could then conceivably apply for the closed TLD and it could be started as a brand new operation, without any registrations.
Details can be found here : http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-26jun08-en.htm
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm
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