New gTLDs: first results!

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received a total of 1930 pplications, after refunds, for new generic top-level domains.

• 1846 of those are “standard” applications.
• 84 are designated as “community-based”.

Of the 1930,

• 66 have designated themselves as geographic name applications.
• 116 applications are Internationalized Domain Names, or IDNs, using non-Latin scripts.
• 3 applicants seek support through ICANN’s Applicant Support Program.

Applications were received from 60 countries.

Using ICANN’s definitions of the world’s regions, which can be viewed on our website:

• 911 applications came from North America.
• 675 from Europe.
• 303 applications are from the Asia-Pacific region.
• 24 are from Latin America and the Caribbean.
• 17 from Africa.

Some domain names have been applied for by more than one applicant.
There are 230 domain names for which at least two applications were submitted, involving a total of 751 applications.

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