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Currently new gTLD applications are paused and it's hard to remember how hot it was back when they were open or see how hot it's going to be when they're reopened.

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PrimeMcFly3y ago· 3 in thread

Unless and until they are.

Don't underestimate the greed of the people making these decisions.

CydeWeysOP3y ago

I work in this industry and know the people making these decisions and I'm not aware of anyone in favor of releasing the RFC 2606 reservations.

benatkin3y ago

Would be done by someone asking for forgiveness instead of permission. :)

CydeWeysOP3y ago

That's not remotely how ICANN works though. Everything always takes many years and has a million different discussions, processes, veto points, etc.

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benatkin3y ago

I wasn't talking about the other ones, just .test.

Maybe as a Blockchain tld :) then it isn't DNS.

Currently new gTLD applications are paused and it's hard to remember how hot it was back when they were open or see how hot it's going to be when they're reopened.

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