The list of new gTLDs was ready even before the registration rules were approved.

    The ICANN Board of Directors at a special meeting in Singapore on June 20, 2011 approved a plan for the transition to simplified registration rules for common domain zones of the first level. In fact, any corporation can now receive a first-level domain in a semi-automatic mode. It is enough to comply with the basic rules (the company must be famous, with a 10-year history), pay a registration fee of $ 185 thousand plus additional payments - and you can get your domain zone. The voting of the ICANN Board of Directors and the multi-month discussion procedure are no longer required and the requirement of “public importance” of the domain zone does not apply.

    According to ICANN estimates, after the start of accepting applications under the new rules from January 12, 2012, we can expect the appearance of about 200-300 new domain zones per year with a maximum limit of 1000 per year. The .canon , .ibm domains will be among the first to be registered , and other manufacturers will surely catch up with them. In the queue for about a hundred applications.

    The new domain registration procedure is described in detail in the Applicant Guidebook (PDF).

    Very soon, we can only recall that in the history of the Internet there were times when top-level domains could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Recall that the first five domains were approved by RFC 920 in October 1984:

    .com - for commercial sites;
    .edu - for educational sites;
    .gov - for sites of US government organizations;
    .mil - for US military organizations;
    .org - for non-profit organizations.

    Almost immediately .net domain was added to them - for sites whose activities are related to the Network.

    In November 1988, at the request of NATO, the .int domain was registered for international organizations. Initially, it was planned to host infrastructure databases there, but later a .arpa domain zone was allocated for these purposes.

    As of June 2011, the Internet uses 25 top-level domain zones (not including national ones), including the .xxx zone that was finally approved in March 2011.

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