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.

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 [...]

ICANN released the meeting schedule for this coming ICANN Mexico a couple of days back and it’s good to know that the gTLD is still the main agenda despite the recent developments.
It’s also good to know that the updated RFP will be released prior to ICANN Mexico meeting. Hopefully, just enough time for anyone to [...]

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 [...]