At its most recent meeting, the NGPC also adopted resolutions prohibiting Dotless Domains in new gTLDs and adopting the BGC's Recommendation to deny Reconsideration Request 13-4.ICANN Moves To Prohibit Dotless Domains [icann.org]
bill
11:38 pm on Aug 16, 2013 (gmt 0)
That's bad news for Google. They were trying to get a dotless "search" domain.