ICANN has unimously voted to allow an unlimited amount of new TLD’s, using any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters.
In CNN article annoucing the decision it states in part:
“””The decision could spell the end for traditional Web addresses ending .com and .org and country names like .jp or .fr with Web sites able […]

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ICANN is expected to vote to approve a proposal which will open the flood gates creating an almost unlimited amount of domain extensions.
Pricing seems to be set between $100K-$500K for each new extension.
Any extension that get more than one proposal will wind up being auctioned off the the highest paying registry.
This has already stired talk […]

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From the Paris ICANN’s meeting,  where every seat was filled, more than 1,400 participants attended the new top-level domain (TLD) workshop Monday afternoon.
Reports from the meeting, have quoted various people having some negative comments about allowing hundreds of new extensions,
Jay Scott Evans, former chair of ICANN’s Intellectual Property Constituency and senior legal advisor for Yahoo. […]

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I just received this message in my inbox, which looks like its from ICANN.
You will be getting one too soon.
Looks like a very sophisticated and organized phishing attack.

They are not using an obviously fake web address.

They are using the domain Icannresolve.com

All the links on the page go back to Icann.org and resolve properly, however […]

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During the ICANN Meeting in Paris this week, ICANN annouced that it was seriously considering whether to opening up domain names to endless variations and approve hundreds of new extensions including .berlin, .paris, .quebec .cat (for Catalonia) and one for the big apple, .nyc
“We’re talking about introducing potentially thousands more names,” said Paul Levins, executive officer of […]

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The newest Tld coming to market is .tel.
Telnic Limited, the Registry Operator and Sponsoring Organization for the new sponsored top level domain .tel, today announced details for launch at the ICANN meeting in Paris.
Sunrise applications from national trademark owners will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis as of Wednesday, 3rd December 2008.
Landrush registration, open […]

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