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Internet policymakers appear to be in the home stretch on a controversial plan to add hundreds of new domain name extensions -- such as .nyc, .africa and .sport -- that could forever alter the e-commerce landscape.The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) says it will post online Nov. 9 what it hopes will be the final version of its guidebook for organizations applying for new top-level domains (TLDs).If the applicant guidebook is approved, ICANN says it will begin accepting applications for new TLDs in May 2011.Industry observers predict that new domains could become operational in 2012.

The ICANN Board is putting the finishing touches on the issues they've been wrestling with such as trademark protection and vertical integration. With the next version of the applicant guidebook, they're about to put a stake in the ground on all of those issues.

ICANN has been working on this applicant guidebook for new [TLDs] for quite some time, and they've done a very nice job of addressing any expected issue that could come up: trademark protection, scaling of the root, security considerations.

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