Governments unhappy with ICANN's new tld sale.

ICANN's 44th public meeting in Prague.. not all smilies

[Leosghost]

During sessions here at ICANN's 44th public meeting in Prague, government representatives have raised their eyebrows over several types of application.

Some have looked askance at huge keyword land-grabs by companies such as Amazon and Google, which have separately applied for over 100 private name-spaces including .blog, .music and .shop.

[theregister.co.uk...]

ps ..objecting to ICANN over allocations or registration attempts..is open to all ..even us ..

[lucy24]

Raising their eyebrows eh. Is that the British equivalent of swearing, stomping, smashing crockery and-- when all else fails-- saying it with bombs?

:: vague association with president of Panama telling Manuel Noriega he's fired, and getting the answer "No, you're fired" ::

How 'bout if all the grownup webmasters just turn their backs on the whole thing and calmly continue doing business with their .com domains? Let those other tld's remain a slightly silly indulgence, like vanity plates.

[jmccormac]

@lucy24 Based on what has happened with the existing "new" TLDs such as .co/eu/mobi/asia/etc the web is going to go on as before with the primary focus being on the com/ccTLD axis for most countries.

Regards...jmcc

[creeking]

anyone have a rough idea of what percentage of new TLD applications were from non-U.S.A. companies or organizations?

[jmccormac]

It is a PDF but it gives the breakdown of applications by region:
[newgtlds.icann.org...]

Regards...jmcc