New gTLD Application for .lan(newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org)
116 points by mzajc | 140 comments
ICANN application details page for a new generic top-level domain application for the string .lan, in pre-evaluation processing.
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Show HN: gtlds.fyi – All the proposed new gTLDs(gtlds.fyi)
35 points by irs | 39 comments
A browsable directory of applied-for new generic top-level domains (986 names), listing each proposed TLD with its applicant company and overlap counts.
ICANN Reveals 2026 Round Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains(icann.org)
31 points by ChrisArchitect | 38 comments
ICANN announcement publishing the list of applications received in the 2026 round of the New Generic Top-Level Domains program, including contention sets.
.name Termination(neil.fraser.name)
2118 points by pavel_lishin | 520 comments
Neil Fraser's blog post about Verisign's ICANN-approved plan to terminate third-level .name domains, threatening his long-held neil.fraser.name domain.
.self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting(hccf.onmy.cloud)
649 points by HumanCCF | 362 comments
A blog post from HCCF proposing .self, a new human-centered top-level domain intended to support self-hosting; the page failed to load with an upstream connection error.
Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS(icann.org)
844 points by radeeyate | 331 comments
ICANN announcement about launching the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) and sunsetting the WHOIS service for domain registration data.
.INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications(icann.org)
514 points by joncfoo | 252 comments
ICANN Board approved resolutions from a July 29, 2024 special meeting, including reserving the .INTERNAL top-level domain for private-use applications.
The .zip TLD sucks and it needs to be immediately revoked(financialstatement.zip)
469 points by me_again | 244 comments
A protest page hosted on a .zip domain arguing that Google's .zip top-level domain enables phishing by confusing URLs with filenames and should be revoked.