Starting an Online Business / CLE Webinar - ICANN's New Top-Level Domain Names Part 2: The Expenses Related To New Domain Names

By Paul D. McGrady, Jr., Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig / Author, McGrady on Domain Names  

In terms of timing, ICANN can pull the switch at any moment.  The last meeting in San Francisco just ended recently and there's another meeting in Singapore in June.  I know that ICANN is anxious to get this done. The ICANN voted to vote on the issue on June 20, 2011, in Singapore.

Once they say yes, the application guidebook is ready to go.  There will be a four-month communication window where they allow people to understand fully what's going on here and then there will be a three-month application window.  So, we're talking about something that could happen in the next eight months.  And so the planning stages and the budgeting stages really are upon us now. 

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