Chinese Catholic domain first drawn in ICANN lottery ? longer wait for .irish
Domain name registrar Register365 has revealed the results of the recent ICANN priority lottery, which will see .irish become the first global Irish domain to be launched.
The lottery took place in Los Angeles earlier this week.
The domain .catholic, written in Chinese, has been the first generic top-level domain (gTLD) to be drawn in the lottery, which will determine which domains have gained first mover advantage, according to Register365.
The .irish domain, applied for by Irish real estate entrepreneur John Toland, was pulled out in the lottery at position 1,491 so will be among the later new gTLDs to launch.
ICANN said it aims to launch 1,000 domains in the first 12 months following the ICANN meeting in Beijing in April next year, barring any delays.
The .irish domain launch looks set to be pushed out until at least 2014.
ICANN decided to hold the lottery after 1,930 applications were received for new gTLDs - nearly double the number they expected.
The .london domain was picked 635th and is therefore in with a chance of launching next year while .lol by Google was 877th to be picked out.
?The stakes were high as 92pc of new gTLD applications had bought tickets to get first mover advantage in the LA lottery," said Kelly Salter, domain product specialist at Register365.
"This is where the new domain name explosion really starts. We have found out which of the extensions have got first mover advantage in the race to gain exclusive control of a slice of the internet.
"Someone was obviously praying hard as the first name drawn from the lottery was .catholic appearing as an internationalised domain name written in Chinese script. ?Obviously the Pope's aspirations on China got a great boost just before Christmas."
Source: http://www.businessandleadership.com/business/item/38732-chinese-catholic-domain-fir
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