Archive for November, 2008

The draft ‘Applicant Guidebook’ for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) is now available in Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish and Russian for review and comment for those interested in applying for new generic top-level domains.

Currently there are 21 of these gTLDs, such as .com, .org and .info, all of them using Roman (or English) characters. Groups already expressing an interest in applying for new gTLDs include those for .berlin, .paris, .nyc (New York City), .cym (Cymru/Wales) .car and .sport, among others.

Too expensive, too slow and too unrefined in their details – these are the main points of criticism in connection with the proposals presented by the private internet administration group.