TLD proliferation is a scam by money-hungry registrars who want people to register (and thus pay) in multiple TLDs to "protect their brands".
I recommend we boycott/ignore these various things and just avoid them, but I know we're going to end up registering a bunch for the "brand protection" (racket). -- brion On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Derric Atzrott < [email protected]> wrote: > ICANN just delegated the gTLD .WIKI yesterday. It's being managed by Top > Level > Design, LLC. I'm not entirely sure what that means for all of us exactly, > but I > suspect that the WMF is going to want to at least register Wikipedia.wiki > and > Wikimedia.wiki once the gTLD is open for registration. > > Some of the new gTLDs are already opening up for registration. .sexy and > .tattoo will be opening for registration on 25 February. > > It looks like if we want to get .wiki domains we will be getting them > sometime > in May or June during the "sunrise" period.[1] > > ICANN also has a full list of new gTLDs that they have approved.[2] > > Thank you, > Derric Atzrott > Computer Specialist > Alizee Pathology > > [1]: http://www.namejet.com/Pages/newtlds/tld/WIKI > [2]: http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strings > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
