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Hi All,<br>
For those following the issue (all of us?), here's the latest in the
Closed Generic battles: Google likely will open key strings.
Hooray!<br>
Kathy<br>
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If Google is awarded the right to manage the domain registrations
for .search, .app, .blog and .cloud, there is now a <a
target="_blank"
href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/comments-closed-generic-05feb13/msg00196.html">good
chance</a> that it won’t just use them for its own services and
will open them up for non-Google properties, too. Last year, when <a
target="_blank" href="http://www.icann.org/">ICANN</a> opened up
the first phase of the registration process for new generic
top-level domain names, Google accounted for <a target="_blank"
href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/expanding-internet-domain-space.html">about
100</a> of the over 1,900 applications ICANN received. Among those
were some that referenced Google brands and products like .google,
.chrome, .android and .gmail, but Google and many of the other
applicants also applied for the right to manage top-level domains
with very generic terms like <em>.blog</em>, <em>.show</em>, <em>.earth</em>,
<em>.book</em> and <em>.car</em>.... <br>
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<pre><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/09/if-it-gets-them-google-may-open-search-app-blog-and-cloud-gtlds-to-the-public/">http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/09/if-it-gets-them-google-may-open-search-app-blog-and-cloud-gtlds-to-the-public/</a>
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