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ICANN, or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, have finally unveiled the full list of submissions for new internet addresses.
Various companies and organisations from around the world have applied to have their trademark or specific chosen words as a generic top-level domain or gTLD as it’s also known. If you’re not familiar with what a gTLD is, it’s the last part of a web address, for example gadgethelpline.com.
As you can imagine, several of the top-level domains have been applied for by more than one party, these included .sex, .home and also .diy, therefore it’s quite possible that it will be decided by an auction process, as to who will finally be the registered owner of that specific gTLD.
On the other hand, there have been some organisations that have been able to secure domains for which no one else has applied, for example, Nominet, the organisation that manages the .uk gTLD, has successfully applied for the .wales and also .cymru extensions. In addition, the Dot Scot Registry was the only organisation to apply for the .scot domain.
There has been some companies that have objected to the new process however, Samsung being one of them. Although, the South Korean electronics giant still applied for both .samsung and also the equivalent in the Korean alphabet. There was, however, a selection of companies including Coca-Cola and also Kellogg’s who abstained and even signed a petition in protest of the new internet addresses.
Google went to town in applying for gTLD’s, unsurprisingly .google and also .youtube were among the list, and also some other perhaps unexpected ones which included .and, .book, .dad and also .new.
According to the list available on the ICANN website, the most contested domain is .app which received 13 applications. In total, ICANN said that they received a total of 1,930 requests in the first round of the new net names and has invited anyone with objections to these to lodge their complaint within the next seven months.
ICANN is hoping to make the first batch of new net names live sometime after March 2013.
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