Kurt Pritz of ICANN, spoke today at the NewDomains.org conference when the question was asked; how will ICANN batch or process applications for the new gTLD’s?
ICANN previously stated that if more than 500 application were received they would process them in batches, and that no more than 1,000 extension would be delegated in any year, so how any application is batched may decide if a particular application comes out late in 2012 or maybe for not a year or more later.
Many now expect over 1,000 applications, possibly more than 2,000 applications to be filed in the first round.
So how the batches are determined can be a huge difference in the time an extension will be launched and therefore a pretty costly decision to an applicant.
Mr. Pritz said:
“”ICANN hasn’t decided how the batching will be done but we are coming to a conclusion very soon.””
“”Batching will be done in a group of like 500, 400, 400″”
“However ICANN is still wrestling with the legal issues on how batching is done”
“We can have a foot race, 1st come 1st served but that is not an attractive option it would force a lot of the applications to come in on the first days.
“On the other hand ICANN might batch them based on some objective based or community basis.”
“ICANN can also elect to process them just randomly”, in other words luck of the draw.
Or in a undefined “semi random process”
“These are just some of the options we are considering.” Pritz said.
With the application period opening up in just 3 1/2 months I’m sure applicants would really like to know if they need to race to the door or prepare there application in some other way to give them a better chance of getting batched sooner.
With a $185,000 application fee plus plenty of other costs involved there is a lot of money on the line that will rest on how ICANN answers the questions and it would be quite a shame for such a decision to be made by luck (or lack thereof) of the draw.
Compared with some possibilities, drawing lots probably looks like one of the more equitable options on the table.
Maybe they should go on the applicant CEO’s golf handicap or something 😉
can DNS serves easily manage thousands TLDs without have lots of mistakes and delays
“”ICANN hasn’t decided how the batching will be done but we are coming to a conclusion very soon.””
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Yep, check back in a couple of years – they will have a multi-stakeholder decision by then.. and in the interim they all make a lot of money off (your) .COM taxes
ICANN is supposed to exist for public interest, not to have a role in picking winners and losers and for private financial gain.
It will probably just go in order of whoever is willing to pay ICANN the biggest bride.
Brad
There are a ton of other legal issues that ICANN seems to just be ignoring as well.
BTW, that should read – “biggest bribe”
Brad
“Many now expect over 1,000 applications, possibly more than 2,000 applications to be filed in the first round.”
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Do you really think ICANN (IANA) and the spooks are going to disclose the real applicants and processes ?
http: //www. wimp. com/nasasatellite/
Mike Roberts the first ICANN CEO claimed applications were screened by U.S. Government “officials”. Some applications were apparently not mentioned. It was unclear if people got their money back.
The U.S. FCC would never get away with that sort of process. It appears to be
some sort of desirable? feature of the infamous multi-stakeholder model.
Perhaps they should create a TV show where the applicants can engage in various exploits of cunning or talent to gain the reward of an earlier place in the queue — something along the lines of “Domain Survivor” or “Internet Idol” … members of WIPO and the GAC can serve as judges 😉
It would make sense to batch non contentious TLDs first to get them out of the way. Geographical and City TLDs, that have the prerequisite endorsement , for example.
John
and because of that I think you are going to see a lot of game playing including filing of objections for the sole purpose of delaying competitive extensions for 6 months to allow their string to come out first
can’t wait for that big fat root.zone.gz with 1,000+ entries plus useless authentication keys. the file has just been too small all these years. it downloads too quickly. too easy.
we need more complexity! don’t worry. they’re working on it.
“I think you are going to see a lot of game playing”
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People will only “see” that if they choose to remain in the rapidly aging and declining IPv4 Internet Eco.System.
It seems unlikely that consumers will want to watch those games.
Major platform providers will likely want to supply consumers with what they desire. Why would a major platform provider channel people to domain game playing? Life is short..
What people may be missing is that there is more content than demand/interest.
Once the gaming is done, major platform providers can skim off the cream that rises to the top.
Al Gore withdraws .eco plans, lets Gorbachev go forward with .eco–
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/28/al-gore-group-eco-domain
“Al Gore withdraws .eco plans”
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The smart money is going for the Re-Bids like .US and the new (software derived) companion TLD – .USA
The 2-Letter TLDs are also being re-purposed – there are over 1200 of them
.AG has AGriculture potentials
.AG country-code Antigua and Barbuda
UHSA School of Medicine