1930 applications for new top-level domains have been submitted - a full list has been published on ICANN

ICANN held a press conference today in London, which published the final list of applications for new generic top-level domains. The press conference can be viewed live. The final list of candidate domains is available on the ICANN website. Anyone can take part in the public discussion of applications . The discussion will be held over the next two months. Official consideration of applications and objections will last until November. Domains approved by ICANN will start in December 2012 - January 2013.

This is the largest DNS namespace expansion ever. Until now, only a couple of dozens of generic top-level domain names and several hundred geographic domains have been used. Almost a year ago, on June 20 in Singapore at 41 ICANN meetings, the new gTLD program was approved, greatly simplifying the rules for registering top-level domains. Now any legal entity, be it a corporation, a non-profit organization or an authority, can become the owner of its own top-level domain. This year, the fee for registering such a domain is $ 185,000.

A total of 1930 applications were filed. Among them, only 66 are associated with geographical names. 116 - IDN containing non-Latin characters. The rest are the names of brands, organizations or common terms such as .lol, .blog, .book, .dog, .hotel, .law, .world and others. The largest number of applications came from the USA - 911. From Europe, 675 applications were received, from the Asia-Pacific region - 303, from Latin America - 24, and from Africa - 17.
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