While the report rejects a number of applications, mainly on the grounds that the businesses applying failed, in the opinion of ICANN officials, to show sufficient technical expertise to administer a new domain name, ICANN has not at this stage said which of the applications it is approving or which top level domain names will become available.
ICANN has divided the applications into three broad categories: general-purpose TLDs, such as .biz, .web and .kids, special-purpose TLDs, tending to target narrow, non-commercial users, and "new services", for extensions which covered telephone related services, like .tel.
ICANN said that some applicants failed to meet its requirement to “demonstrate specific and well-thought-out plans, backed by ample, firmly committed resources, to operate in a manner that preserves the Internet's continuing stability.”
ICANN’s report is available from its web site at www.icann.org.
