This list is out of date - it contains strings that have already been withdrawn by the applicant. The accurate list, including status, and the prioritization order (the order they'll be added if successful), is at:<p><a href="http://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus" rel="nofollow">http://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationst...</a>
Prepare for:<p>1) Much more complicated URL recognition regexp<p>2) Much more big Ablock Plus filter lists<p>3) ftnn2lhnosm.youtube<p>4) www.apple<p>I'm joking. I really don't like the new gTLD thing.
I'm just confused. Why on earth would you go to .blockbuster? What domain would they use? "movies.blockbuster" ? It's so strange - some of these are extremely long.
Offtopic, but has anybody used name.com for domain registration? I recently found out that namecheap bans the word "hacker" (you have to contact them to get a domain manually approved if it contains that word).<p>That rubs me the wrong way, and I'd rather not give my money to a company that thinks "hackers" are all criminals.
I hope that ICANN accepts a small amount of these. Isn't this the point of subdomains? Why can't ABC just use foo.abc.com (or foo.abc.go.com) instead of foo.abc? The new TLDs are confusing and I'm sure many people will just type in .com as well.<p>Then again, ICANN has nothing to lose by encouraging many applicants, they get an awful lot of money from the applications (about 357 million [1]). They may be non-profit, but they still need money to keep running.<p><pre><code> [1] http://www.name.com/blog/general/news-2/2012/06/icann-reveals-the-new-gtlds/</code></pre>
I'm a little worried how these TLD's will be handled by some carriers. Is there any concern that there will be a fragmentation of the web by carriers or nations that will try to block access to the .gay or .sex or .xxx or similar TLD's?