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ICANN has stated that it is "on track" with its new TLD plans, but if you were hoping to register something like .film or .blog anytime soon you would be disappointed.

The current situation is that the project is moving forward, but there are no clearly defined timelines.

At an educated guess predicting that registrations could open in 2012 might not be unreasonable, but it is NOT a "given".

Antony Van Couvering from Minds and Machines has published a revised timeline based on the current "state of play". It's not fixed or "set in stone", but it's probably as accurate a timeline as anyone could produce in the current circumstances.

Antony's timeline predicts an application round for companies wanting to run a new domain space (extension) in Q2 of 2011. Applications in that round would need to be evaluated etc., so you'd expect the process to last through until Q4 of 2011, with the public being able to actually get domains in Q1 of 2012.

It would be nice to see this kind of timeline coming into being, but I strongly suspect that each of the various stages will be longer than anyone can currently predict (based on how slow the process has been to date).

You can read Antony's article here or check out the timeline image below (click to enlarge):



What do you think?

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Minds and Machines have launched a new site targetted at prospective candidates for "city TLDs".

The site provides information on what they predict will be the application process for a city that wants to run their own domain space.

While the site is obviously going to push the Minds and Machines' services to some extent it's still a pretty good source of information for city managers or people who are interested in understanding how the process may work.

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Those involved with new TLD projects have been waiting "in the wings" for the last couple of months, as it was very unclear how ICANN intended to move forward

After the meeting in Seoul ICANN seem to have found a way of moving forward, though we will have to wait and see exactly how that pans out.

As new TLD projects come out of hiding we'll try to keep you up to date

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In the coming months ICANN, the international organisation that oversees the internet, will be accepting applications from interested parties who want to launch their own domain extensions (TLDs).

So we might see people and businesses advertising themselves using .movie (dotMovie) or .food (dotFood)

If you use the internet either casually or for your business the introduction of new TLDs could impact you.

But do you care?

Possibly not that much.

And why would you?

Domain names are like cogs in a wheel. They're not very exciting, but if they break you know about it.

Over the coming months we're going to try and help people get to grips with the new TLD landscape, as it changes.

We'll try to explain what various companies and organisations are up to and why it might matter to your business.

If there are any things you'd like us to explain or if you think we're not being very clear - please let us know.