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Jul 17, 2012
Antonio Turco, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Canada
Joanna Myszka, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Canada

Dot Landrush - ICANN Releases List of TLD Applications


Antonio Turco, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Canada, Joanna Myszka, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, CanadaOn June 13, 2012, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization with the technical and policy-making responsibility for the domain name system, released the list of over 1,900 applications it received for new sponsored generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs). This anticipated, but delayed, announcement follows ICANN's 2008 decision to expand the domain name system, despite the concerns of trade-mark owners.

A domain name consists of at least two components organized in hierarchical fields separated by a dot. The top-level domain (TLD) is located to the right of the dot. The second level domain, often referred to as the "host", is located to the left of the dot. For example, in blakes.com, BLAKES is the host and <.com> is the TLD. The two main types of TLDs are generic TLDs or gTLDs, (e.g., <.com>, <.org>, <.net>) and country code TLDs, or ccTLDs (e.g., <.ca>). The letters ".ca" are known as "strings". There are currently 22 gTLDs in the domain name system, and  read more