I came across a newsletter from Centr who has compiled and covered several important areas to be in a TLD registry. It ranges from DNS vulnerability, DNSSEC, Anycast and IPv6. There is ton load of information in there and i think others will find it useful as i have as well. Good job Centr.
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This is one of our materials that was distributed at ICANN Cairo last Nov. This is a layman term of explaining the gTLD process to people that are not familiar with the industry. This is highly suitable for your community to understand how complex is the gTLD process.
Puntogal has included them in their website and [...]

In short, Yes.
(Not because it means more greens for us registry service providers).
Hear me out as a regular Joe on the Internet.
Currently there are 20 TLDs as mention here on ICANN’s website. Now that’s a more than a handful of TLDs for global consumers to pick and choose from. Obviously, the more popular ones such [...]