Dear all, The ICANN Board’s New gTLD Programme Committee has approved two resolutions with the goal of providing interim Domain Name protections to certain non-governmental organisations and Intergovernmental Organisations. One resolution would specifically afford temporary protection at the second level for certain names associated with the Red Cross, Red Crescent and the International Olympic Committee. The second resolution lays out a course for placing the names and acronyms of IGOs into a Reserved Names List, which will afford second level protection for those names and acronyms. http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-28nov12-en.pdf Kind regards, Gabi