ICANN announces A fourth draft of the Applicant Guidebook that describes the process of applying for new generic top-level domains was released today along with explanatory memoranda and detailed analysis of comments received. The program continues to improve and moves toward completion thanks to the outstanding collaboration from the ICANN Community working groups whose expertise helped to address and bring toward closure several challenging issues.
The public comment period begins on 31 May 2010 and ends 21 July 2010. Review the Guidebook and provide your feedback here. Read accompanying Explanatory Memoranda and Reports here.
Also posted were the Summaries & Analyses of the public comment period on topics such as: trademark & community protections, potential for malicious conduct, IDN issues and registry operations & agreement.