ICANN has recently publicized the list of new gTLD applicants and the strings that will compete with the 22 existing generic TLDs and 290 odd ccTLDs that exist today.
A total of 1930 applications have been received. These constitute 1409 unique strings. Over the next couple of year, some of these strings will be open for public use and will most certainly change the way we use the internet on a day-to-day basis!
Here’s more details on the applications –
Top Contested TLDs:
- .App (13 applicants)
- .Home (11 applicants)
- .Inc (11 applicants)
- .Art (10 applicants)
- .Blog (9 applicants)
- .Book (9 applicants)
- .LLC (9 applicants)
- .Shop (9 applicants)
Classification of TLDs:
- 1137 Generics
- 643 Brands
- 84 Community
- 66 Geographic
- 116 IDNs (covering 12 scripts)
Global Distribution of TLDs:
- 911 from North America
- 675 from Europe
- 303 from the Asia-Pacific region
- 24 from Latin America and the Caribbean and
- 17 from Africa
Largest Applicants (in terms of no. of applications submitted) include:
- Donuts – 307
- Google – 101
- Amazon – 76
- TLDH – 71
- Famous Four Media – 60
- Uniregistry – 54
- Radix – 31
- Afilias – 31
The entire list of applicant details can be found on ICANN’s Website.
You can get more information about the new gTLD process on http://newgtlds.icann.org. Further insights can be gained on ICANNWiki’s New gTLD page as well.
Pic courtesy newgtlds.icann.org
