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<br /><div style="color: #FFF; background-color: #466f81; padding: 5px 10px; border: 1px solid #466f81;"><big>Article of the Week</big></div><div style="padding: 10px;">

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<big><b>[[New TLD contracting]]</b></big>

<big><b>[[Brand TLD]]</b></big>

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The [[New TLD contracting]] page is an outline of the Contracting process for [[New gTLD Program|New gTLD]] applicants as defined by [[ICANN]]. It is our goal to supplement this with actual contracting timelines and action items that are encountered by new [[TLD]] applicants. The document walks through pre-delegation testing, transition to [[IANA]] and delegation, [[Registry]] onboarding, and real-life applicant examples, among other steps. <br /><br />

A [[Brand TLD]] is an innovative type of top level domain name ([[TLD]]) that is made possible through the implementation of [[ICANN]]'s [[New gTLD Program]]. A Brand TLD provides the opportunity for branded corporations to use their corporate name as their website's top-level identifier instead of using a more traditional [[.com]] or [[.biz]] domain space. Brands represent 34% of the applied for 1,930 applications; a total of 664 brand applications were submitted to ICANN. A Brand TLD is not a separate category of TLD such as [[GeoTLD]] or [[Community TLD]] as defined by the [[Applicant Guidebook]]. Some speculate that ICANN may formalize the rules for a Brand TLD in any future TLD expansion round.

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<div style="float:right;"><small><strong>Related: [[New gTLD Program]] - [[Registry]] - [[:Category:TLDs with Registry Agreements]]</strong></small></div><div style="clear: left;"></div></div>

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<div style="float:right;"><small><strong>Related: [[New gTLD Program]] - [[Community TLD]] - [[GeoTLD]]</strong></small></div><div style="clear: left;"></div></div>

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<br /><div style="color: #FFF; background-color: #2EA5B4; padding: 5px 10px; border: 0px solid #0d8323;"><big>NamesCon 2014</big></div><div style="padding: 10px;">

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