Top Level Domain Holdings, the parent company for Minds + Machines
has expressed its satisfaction with the outcomes of the ICANN meeting
held in Nairobi last week.
In a news release, the company says that restrictions on cross-ownership
between registrars and registries will hinder the number of prospective
applicants but benefit Minds + Machines.
This, Top Level Domain Holdings (TLDH) says, continues a trend of
increasing the barriers to application for non-experts as ICANN adds
additional requirements and restrictions to the framework for the
introduction of gTLDs. TLDH is unaffected by this policy and the Board
of TLDH therefore expects that TLDH will benefit from this continuing
separation between registrars and registries.
And while the company supported the Expressions of Interest programme
for prospective new generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) applicants, the
programme becomes irrelevant as ICANN nears the point when it says it
will be ready to begin accepting applications.
ICANN staff reported during the Nairobi meeting that the fourth draft of
Draft Applicant Guidebook is expected to be issued in June and be near
its final incarnation, subject only to a final comment period.
Minds + Machines says they welcome ICANN’s focus that the main objective
should be to speed up the gTLD process, and the intermediate step of
EoIs is unnecessary if ICANN is close to resolving the final details
prior to the launch of new gTLDs.
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