Dawn of a New Internet Era

For anyone like me interested in which new gTLDs were introduced but was surprised that their names were not included in the blog post:<p>شبكة (xn--ngbc5azd) — Arabic for &quot;web&#x2F;network&quot;<p>онлайн (xn--80asehdb) — Cyrillic for &quot;online&quot;<p>сайт (xn--80aswg) — Cyrillic for &quot;site&quot;<p>游戏 (xn--unup4y) — Chinese for &quot;game(s)&quot;<p>Source: <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20131023_first_new_gtlds_go_live_on_the_internet_announces_icann/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.circleid.com&#x2F;posts&#x2F;20131023_first_new_gtlds_go_li...</a>

Looks like an application to apply is $185K, takes 4 months to process, and around a year to get approved. Not including costs for any legal or infrastructure needed to support your gTLD.

ICANN is a modern day Mafia. This is an extortion scheme to milk more money from corporations. Domains are becoming less and less irrelevant anyway - or at least gTLDs are. I cannot believe that we still tolerate the existence of this corrupt organization! The whole Redemption scheme is just unbelievable! Years pass and nobody does anything to get rid of this domainers-funded mafia!

[serious] Can we replace the icann?

&gt; &quot;When somebody sends you a message saying &#x27;I&#x27;d like a new top-level domain name,&#x27; that gets handed to me, and I explain to them why that&#x27;s a bad idea. Then they pretty much go away and we go on as before.&quot;<p><a href="http://jonpos.tel/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jonpos.tel&#x2F;</a>

<i>It’s no accident that the first tranche of gTLDs to be delegated are all non-Latin strings</i><p>It&#x27;s a shame it took so long, but hopefully this will stem the tide of young people who have been pushed towards using their language in transliterated form rather than the original script (I am thinking of Arabic <i>dardasha</i> writing specifically, but I imagine there are other examples)

Serious question here, what are the technical limitations in ditching gTLDs and allowing domain names to be any string?

Here&#x27;s hoping for .js sometime soon