ICANN has commenced its 15-calendar day review period on a request from Afilias in dot-INFO for allocation of one and two-character .INFO domain names. Information on the proposal can be found at http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#201001. ICANN has previously approved a similar requests from other gTLD registries: Dot-NAME (2006, two-characters at the third-level only): http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2006004 puntCAT (2007, limited release of UA, UB, UV.cat): http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2007001 Dot-JOBS (2007, limited release of two-character names only): http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2007002 Dot-Coop (2007, release of go.coop): http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2007005 Dot-Coop (2008, one and two-character names): http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2008005 Dot-Mobi (2008, single character names): http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2008006 Dot-BIZ (2008, one and two-character names): http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2008010 Dot-Mobi (2008, two-character names): http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2008011 Dot-Pro (2009, one, two, remaining three-character names): http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2009002 puntCAT (2009, one and two-character names): http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2009009 Although public comments can be submitted at any time on a registry services proposal to registryservice at icann.org, this is not notification of a formal comment period. Information on the Registry Services Evaluation Process can be found at http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/. Please let me know if you have additional questions. Regards, Patrick -- Patrick L. Jones Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers 4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 330 Marina del Rey, CA 90292 Tel: +1 310 301 3861 patrick.jones@icann.org patrickjones.tel