Icann had previously said it would announce who had applied for which of the gTLDs on 30 April.
New gTLDs are a unique opportunity to refresh Internet naming for all end-users.
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Donuts looks forward to reasoned, fact-based discussions of the impact of new gTLDs, and of its own contributions to this program.
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There will be several hundred new generic top-level domain names (gTLDs), which could include such addresses as .google, .coke, or even .
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To be successful, the new gTLDs would require a change in consumer behavior, plus a change in how search engines index the internet.
However, he did expect a handful of regional-based gTLDs like ".africa" to be successful, depending on how well they were operated and how consumers responded.
The volume of new gTLDs is no indicator of the frequency of abuse, because in fact much of it will be precluded before it occurs.
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However, the share of gTLDs among all domain names has fallen gradually from a high of approximately 75% in 2000 to the approximately 50% currently.
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Donuts has committed to more than 20 new rights protection mechanisms that will provide rights holders and end users with stable and secure experiences in new gTLDs.
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However, Johnston said that talk of gTLDs has existed for roughly 10 years and there is still a lot of litigation that needs to be resolved before any gTLDs see the light of day.
Ray Valdes, vice-president of web services for tech consultancy Gartner, said that because the new wave of gTLDs went "against the grain of current consumer trends", his company expected most of them to fall short of their goals.
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