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ICANN opens applications for new generic top-level domains for the first time since 2012

Simon Sharwood · 5 days ago · Read original ↗

ATT&CK techniques detected

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T1583.001Domains
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"generated over 2000 applications and saw icann allow more than 1, 900 gtlds. many corporations acquired a gtld that included their name, or related terms such as the. java gtld registered by oracle. registries also proposed, and earned, many gtlds in the hope they would find cust…"
T1583.001Domains
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"will be very general categories like ‘ government ’, ‘ education ’, or ‘ commercial ’. the motivation is to provide an organization name that is free of undesirable semantics. ” in 1985, the five gtlds recommended by postel and reynolds became available, along with. net. in the y…"

Summary

$227k gets you a hearing for your dot.vanity project, or strings in one of 27 scripts

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Thursday kicked off a new application process for generic top-level domains (gTLDs), its first since 2012.…