The GNSO Council meeting in Sydney.
[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]Kurt Pritz, Senior Vice President of Services at ICANN, gave details on the projected timeline for the rollout of new gTLDs during the GNSO Council's meeting in Sydney today.
He also spoke on the ccTLD IDN fast-track process which is running parallel.
It now seems that process will come to fruition first. The ICANN Board is set to approve it at the Seoul meeting in October. If this is done, those countries that are ready to launch their IDN ccTLD (China and Russia are said to be anxious to do so) can then expect to do so mid 2010.
Kurt Pritz then gave his own personal estimate of when the first of the new gTLDs might come online. Expectations are for validation to take between 4 and 5 months. As the Board would then have to sign off on applications, the whole process could take up to 7 months.
As ICANN is currently working to open the first application cycle in February 2010, that would then mean that the earliest of the new gTLDs could be active on the Internet by the end of 2010.[/FONT]
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