<div dir="ltr"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I apologize; I might have expressed it in a wrong way.</font><div><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style><font face="verdana,sans-serif">To open up second level domain registrations, like it is happening with .com/.net/etc.</font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Horacio T. Cadiz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hcadiz@ph.net" target="_blank">hcadiz@ph.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 02/07/2013 03:51 PM, Andrei Barburas wrote:<br>
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I am wondering why didn't ICANN open up domain registrations for those<br>
generic TLDs so anybody can register their .app/.music/.whatever domain?<br>
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I don't understand your question. The new gTLD *was* open<br>
to anybody to register their .app/.music/.whatever domain.<br>
That was the point of the new gTLD program.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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