ICANN Announces Draw Results Among New gTLD Applicants
ICANN announced the results of the draw among the applicants for new top-level domains, held on December 17 in Los Angeles. Its result determines the sequence of the final consideration of the application by the ICANN commission and all further steps, including the delegation of the domain.
1766 out of 1917 applications for new domains took part in the draw - an unexpectedly high percentage. 108 of these were applications for non-Latin domains (IDNs), for which ICANN decided to reserve first places in the queue . The winner of the lottery was the domain in Chinese, registered by the Catholic Church - the translation of the word "Catholic". We also note the success of our application for the domain. RUS , which received the 56th number - the highest number among applications from companies from Russia.
ICANN will consider domain applications in the order determined by drawing lots. Its results will determine the order of delegation of domains that have successfully passed the test (legal and technical). Also, the application may be rejected due to similarity with geographic names or already existing domains, or by the decision of the ICANN commission in case of protests by the GAC or members of the public.
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Recall that ICANN plans to delegate domains in groups of 80 names per month. Therefore, domain.RUS may become one of the first domains delegated under the new gTLD program. The process of delegating new domains will begin in April 2013, after the ICANN meeting in Beijing.
It is worth noting that the fact that the overwhelming majority of applicants for new gTLDs accepted the draw highlighted certain shortcomings of this system. ICANN organized an event in Los Angeles to weed out those who do not need to be among the first. But almost everyone took part, perhaps in order not to be at the very end of the line.
As a result, such popular domains as .quebec (1404 number), .scot (1453 number) and .rio (1722 number) were in the tail, and many companies that have not yet decided on their own domain policy or registered it only to protect your trademark.
As Werner Straub notes, the domain of the city of Rio de Janeiro may miss the 2014 FIFA World Cup and even the 2016 Olympic Games because of this.
In his opinion, the authors of about 600 applications may be dissatisfied with the results of the draw, so ICANN should quickly arrange feedback to applicants so that domains demanded by large communities are delegated earlier, and corporate domains for companies that do not plan to actively use their domain later. The policy regarding applications for several domains should also be revised: it looks strange when requests for names denoting basic goods and services of the same company are delegated at intervals of one year.
But ICANN did not provide for any possibility of revising the draw.
All draw results are available on the ICANN website .
1766 out of 1917 applications for new domains took part in the draw - an unexpectedly high percentage. 108 of these were applications for non-Latin domains (IDNs), for which ICANN decided to reserve first places in the queue . The winner of the lottery was the domain in Chinese, registered by the Catholic Church - the translation of the word "Catholic". We also note the success of our application for the domain. RUS , which received the 56th number - the highest number among applications from companies from Russia.
ICANN will consider domain applications in the order determined by drawing lots. Its results will determine the order of delegation of domains that have successfully passed the test (legal and technical). Also, the application may be rejected due to similarity with geographic names or already existing domains, or by the decision of the ICANN commission in case of protests by the GAC or members of the public.
')
Recall that ICANN plans to delegate domains in groups of 80 names per month. Therefore, domain.RUS may become one of the first domains delegated under the new gTLD program. The process of delegating new domains will begin in April 2013, after the ICANN meeting in Beijing.
It is worth noting that the fact that the overwhelming majority of applicants for new gTLDs accepted the draw highlighted certain shortcomings of this system. ICANN organized an event in Los Angeles to weed out those who do not need to be among the first. But almost everyone took part, perhaps in order not to be at the very end of the line.
As a result, such popular domains as .quebec (1404 number), .scot (1453 number) and .rio (1722 number) were in the tail, and many companies that have not yet decided on their own domain policy or registered it only to protect your trademark.
As Werner Straub notes, the domain of the city of Rio de Janeiro may miss the 2014 FIFA World Cup and even the 2016 Olympic Games because of this.
In his opinion, the authors of about 600 applications may be dissatisfied with the results of the draw, so ICANN should quickly arrange feedback to applicants so that domains demanded by large communities are delegated earlier, and corporate domains for companies that do not plan to actively use their domain later. The policy regarding applications for several domains should also be revised: it looks strange when requests for names denoting basic goods and services of the same company are delegated at intervals of one year.
But ICANN did not provide for any possibility of revising the draw.
All draw results are available on the ICANN website .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/163117/
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