ICANN publishes New gTLD Applicant Guidebook Version 3
5th October 2009
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ICANN has published today the third draft of the Applicant’s Guidebook for new Top Level Domains.
This is a huge pile of information that will require several days to digest. At first sight, the current version does not change a lot with regard to our .sport proposal. There are still concerns in the Internet domain name industry that there might be issues if registrars (domain name retailers) became operators of top level domains.
This new draft also includes provisions which would prevent people and companies who have been involved in the past in cybersquatting and similar activities to submit an application for a new top level domain. We welcome this addition. If we want customers to trust the new top level domains, they need to be assured that registry operators are going to play by the rules.
As we said, this new draft requires careful reading. We will keep you updated on how this will affect our .sport proposal.
The documents are at the following URL: www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/comments-3-en.htm
