Version 3 of the draft application guide for new the gTLD is out.
Read all about it here
Thankfully, there is enough breathing space to absorb before ICANN Seoul.

RegistryASP is sponsoring ICANN Seoul (36th) meeting , Seoul Korea. And we can’t wait to get there. As Seoul is only 8 hours away from Malaysia, it’s great news to us because we don’t need to hop into a plane and jet set to the other side of the world.
There are many updates coming up [...]

Here is a poll from Advertising Age, on what marketers think about the new gTLD.
The poll above is referred from here.
What do you think?

At the recent ICANN meeting in Mexico, they setup a booth to capture portrait images of anyone who attends ICANN meeting and it’s for free.  There was a total of 231 photographs taken during that time and it’s too bad that i myself didn’t had the chance to get mine taken.
It’s uploaded to Flickr and [...]

Today ICANN released the second version of the gTLD RFP draft application guide, one week before ICANN Mexico begins in hope to make full use of the public comment periods during the meeting.
Public comments begins on 19 Feb 2009 and closes on 13 April 2009.
There is also a detailed analysis on the public comments by [...]