Found this material at Circle ID site which was posted by John Levine(original posting).
Thought i should share it.

After a short research,
Found this posting at ICANN’s site.
Pay as you proceed through the evaluation process?
1st Stage.
1a) provide an INITIAL APPLICATION FEE ($<5000)
1b) application acceptance and initial evaluation
1c) change the initial evaluation on the Business and Technical portions [...]

Imagine IF playboy tendered for their very own tld. dotPlayboy .
Now wouldn’t that cause a rackus.
Because they have turn down .xxx previously because of it’s heavy content related to pornography.
ICANN has just approved vanity TLDs (here) where organization , communities and even individuals can tender for their very own TLDs if they have a good [...]

It was great event albeit a very busy one. The worst part is, after returning from Paris, you finally realize the amount of work that has been backlog since you were gone.
Oh boy.
Back on to ICANN Paris,
Correct me if i’m wrong but ICANN Paris had the most registered attendees totaling up to 1500+- and the [...]