ICANN picks gTLD's

[Jim Kingdon]

This is a rumor until I can find it on the web pages. In particular,
browsing the web page figuring out which proposal(s) were made for
each name was a bit error-prone.

Anyway, the news is:

ICANN approved .info for general use, .biz for businesses, .name for
individuals, .pro for professionals, .museum for museums, .coop for
business cooperatives and .aero for the aviation industry

And my own inferences are:

.coop
http://www.icann.org/tlds/co-op1/NCBA%20Description%20of%20TLD%20Policies.htm
(registry operations == Poptel, a worker owned ISP;
registry = various co-op leagues, notably Coop League of the USA;
registrars = to be determined)

.info
An Afilias proposal
http://www.icann.org/tlds/info1/

.name
http://www.icann.org/tlds/name1/index1.html
registry = someone I hadn't heard of
registrars = ICANN accredited

.museum
registry = CORE, with various museums involved
the museum folks have been at this for quite a while since they
don't fit in .edu (and didn't necessarily fit in .org back
when it had potentially enforced requirements on who registers).

.biz
.pro
multiple applications; don't know which one won

.aero
http://www.icann.org/tlds/air1/
uses existing aviation standards (e.g. two and three letter codes
for companies).

Overall page: http://www.icann.org/tlds/

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

In article <p4wn1ez...@panix6.panix.com>,

Jim Kingdon <kin...@panix.com> wrote:
>This is a rumor until I can find it on the web pages.

Well, it made the AP wire. (I saw it in clari.news.briefs, for
those people with access to such things.)

--
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
je...@litech.org

[Jim Kingdon]

> Well, it made the AP wire.

See for example
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-3730464.html?tag=st.ne.1002.tgif.ni

It includes a sidebar listing the 7 winners and the organizations
running them.

<whine>and here I wasted all that research when I could have let CNET
do it for me</whine>. Seriously, though, the actual proposals do have
interesting details....

[Matt McLeod]

In <p4wn1ez...@panix6.panix.com>, Jim Kingdon wrote:
>..biz

> multiple applications; don't know which one won

My (technical, not defacto) employer won this one. "JVteam"
(don't you just love the creativity behind that?) is a joint
venture between MelbourneIT (the .com.au people) and NeuStar
(whose name I may have screwed up, but who run the number
portability business in North America).

Though there are apparently some interesting twists to it
which make some of my colleagues think that the modest rise
in the MLB stock won't hold up for long.

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