ICANN Ready to Increase Availability for .SONY, .ARCHI, .BIO and .SAARLAND

Recently ICANN has issued a press release regarding the approval process for new gTLDS domains, namely .SONY, .ARCHI, .BIO and .SAARLAND. The whole documentation is under review and can be found at the following address:

https://www.icann.org/public-comments/ctn-release-tlds-2015-05-13-en

At the moment, there are some regulations which requires that the country and territory names should be excluded from being inserted in new registrations, at any level.

There are also requirements related to significant competition or security issues which needed to be analysed and it seems that so far the proposals do not contradict them.

However, the registry operators came with some amendments which should allow registration at all levels for the above mentioned gTLDS. Currently, only .SONY was allowed to benefit from Specification 13.