Upcoming new TLDs

[edit] Upcoming New Top Level Domains

This website is intended to present and discuss potential new TLDs, to provide exposure, and to facilitate contacts with other TLD applicants to exchange information, collaborate, and demonstrate to ICANN that there's demand for new TLDs.

[edit] TLD Applicants Pending From the 2000 ICANN Process

• DotWeb The .Web Internet Domain Registry - The longest-standing prospective registry, first proposed in 1995, asked to prove the concept by IANA in 1996, applicant to ICANN in 2000, and continuing to await entry into the root.

[edit] City TLD Issue Page

The City TLD issue page looks at the features, benefits, and experience of existing city-like TLDs (.HK, .SG, .VA, .LA), and looks at the issues and applicants for new city-TLDs.

[edit] TLD Applicants Who Have Gone Public

Urban Communities

• .BERLIN - dotBERLIN TLD for the Berlin community
• .NYC - dotNYC Creating a Space for New York City on the Internet
• .PARIS
• .LONDON
• .BAIRES

Cultural and Linguistic Communities

• .SCO - dotSCO TLD for Scottish community (UK)
• .CYM - dotCYM TLD for Welsh community (UK)
• .BZH - dotBZH TLD for Brittany community (FR)
• .GAL - dotGAL TLD for Galicia community (ES)
• .VLX - dotVLX for Flanders (BE)
• .EUS - dotEUS for Basks (ES/FR)

Continental Communities

• .LAC - dotLAC TLD for Latin American community)
• .AFRICA

[edit] Semi-public TLDs

• dotLOVE .love (and related, strictly positive, almost biblical? domains) - endorsed by Dr. Masaru Emoto of What the Bleep? fame

[edit] Other Proposed TLDs

• .health (United Nations)
• .union
• .gprs
• .lib / .bib / .arc (archives and libaries)
• .bank/.giro/.barcode/.stock TLDs (proposed by CORE in Jan 2006)
• other regional TLDs (.nrw, ...)
• other city TLDs (.tokyo, .london, ...)
• .kid / .kids
• single letter TLDs (.y, .g, ...)
• .ianal ("I am not a lawyer") - dot IANAL proposal by Google employee Douwe Osinga

[edit] Open Root: a Democratic Open-Source Alternative to ICANN?

It has been suggested that an "independent, open-source" and very democratic nonprofit public root NGO be opened, organized, identified, and discussed, i.e. initially precisely in a forum such as this.

Suggested names for such an entity/effort include:

• The Open Root (relevant domains are apparently already registered by third-parties)

(The former Public Root, and the current Unified Root -- see below -- are for profit entities that may or may not wish to be emulated, depending on the interests of ALL participants.)

See also: Alternative Roots