[governance] Reminder: The Big Reveal is in One Hour

[CW Mail]

Well, it looks like a wholesale attempt to privatise hundreds of  
generic words in the English language.

CW


On 13 Jun 2012, at 14:22, William Drake wrote:

> http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en
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> ICANN's numbers a bit revealing and arguably sad.  Quoting the 1 pg  
> overview:
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> 1930 applications, after refunds, for new generic top-level domains.
> 1846 of those are “standard” applications.  84 are designated as  
> “community-based”.	
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> Of the 1930, 66 have designated themselves as geographic name  
> applications.
> 116 applications are Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, using  
> non-Latin scripts.
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> Just three applicants seek support through ICANN’s Applicant Support  
> Program [that CS fought to get established.]
>
> Applications  from 60 countries. Using ICANN’s definitions of the  
> world’s regions:
>
> 911 applications came from North America.
> 675 from Europe.
> 303 applications are from the Asia-Pacific region.
> 24 are from Latin America and the Caribbean.
> 17 from Africa.
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> Some domain names have been applied for by more than one applicant.  
> There are 230 domain names for which at least two applications were  
> submitted, involving a total of 751 applications.
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> On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:07 PM, William Drake wrote:
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>> For those interested in new gTLD, a couple thousand apps for new  
>> strings
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>> http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/kits/reveal-day-video-13jun12-en.htm
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