FYI
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
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Jones
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