The new gTLD Draft Applicant Guidebook (DAG) version 4 is now available for public comment as announced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
This version of the DAG has important new content, for example:

Incorporation of trademark protections, including improvements to the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS), the Trademark Clearinghouse (TM Clearinghouse), and the [...]

It is the unveiling of yet another new gTLD, .SITE. .SiTE is a New gTLD being proposed by UrbanBrain Inc., Tokyo, Japan. .SITE is positioned as an alternative to the all-popular .COM and .NET.
Representative Director and CEO of UrbanBrain Inc., Kevin Saimon, indicates the addition of new Internet extensions will increase competition in the market. [...]

We spotted a logo for .IRISH on the ICANN micro-site for its 38th international meeting which is to be held in Brussels, Belgium. The organization behind .IRISH is sponsoring the meeting as a silver sponsor. It seems the Irish are also hopping on to the bandwagon for new gTLDs.
There has not been much information on [...]

.KURD or .KUR is a decision a Kurdish company must decide on to use and represent over 35 million Kurdish people worldwide. A huge number of Kurdish people live in Iran and Iraq, while there are approximately 14 million Kurdish people in Turkey.
This initiative is being driven by Aras Noori, a German resident. Noori wrote [...]

What is .MLS? MLS stands for multiple listing services, and supposedly 15 of the leading MLSs have got together to form the MLS Domains Association, a non-profit association made up of real estate multiple listing services. Its sole purpose of which is to obtain, manage, and promote the use of the .MLS top-level domain on [...]