"ICANN continues to move forward in the implementation of the new gTLD Program while balancing and addressing community concerns on specific aspects of the program. The public comment period on the second version of the applicant guidebook recently closed and work continues to proceed regarding the discussion of overarching issues. In order to continue progress and the community discussion, ICANN will: * Publish an analysis of comments similar to that published after the fist version of the Guidebook, * Conduct consultations and fora at the Sydney meeting and afterward to develop solutions to the overarching issues, * Publish the third version of the Guidebook after the Sydney meeting when solutions to the overarching issues can be included. With that in mind, it is anticipated that applications for new top-level domains will be accepted starting in the first quarter of 2010." Read rest of announcement at http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-07may09-en.htm (via ICANN's twitter feed : http://twitter.com/icann_en) Dev T Trinidad and Tobago Computer Society http://twitter.com/ttcs