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Fresh TLD Guidebook May Be Approved in March Following All

Fresh TLD supporters received good news today.

Following what seemed like disappointing news the prior week, now things are looking up for potential fresh top level domain name applicants.

ICANN just released resolutions from its board meeting on January 25 and they indicate that ICANN plans to go forward with approving the applicant guidebook during the March meeting in San Francisco. The group plans to “trigger the Bylaws mandated consultation” with the Governmental Advisory Committee during the March meeting ahead of the Friday board meeting.

That means we may see the application window for fresh TLDs open up in late summer and the first ones would likely to come online in 2012.

But this is a case where fresh TLD supporters surely won’t count their chickens ahead of they hatch. They’ve by now done a lot of counting to no avail.

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