It says they plan to acquire NIC.sk 'as a legal entity and all associated assets and liabilities.' Not new - I think Verisign owns .tv - but does certainly represents an uptick in that area.....with portents for competition in the space
One would expect the ccTLD market operations to eventually converge with their portfolio gTLD operations; the own .xyz, among others. At least in this aspect - in my own view - they would just be following extant ccTLD market operations that are moreso like gTLD market operations.