Three UAE applicants hold eight active bids in ICANN's 2026 new gTLD round
Three applicant An organization that has applied to ICANN to run a new gTLD. Full definition of applicant based in the United Arab Emirates have eight active applications in ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers The nonprofit that coordinates the global DNS and gTLD policy. Full definition of ICANN's 2026 New gTLD Program ICANN's program for applying to create and run new generic TLDs. Full definition of New gTLD Program. Vant Nexus Technologies LLC seeks .island, .portal and .truck, and it also filed replacement string A backup string an applicant can switch to shortly after Reveal Day. Full definition of replacement string that were later deactivated. Mux Registry L.L.C-FZ applied for .cli, .list and .ops, while Telegram FZ-LLC seeks .gram and .telegram. The applications appear in Pre-Evaluation Processing, and UAE applicants filed 37 of the 1,930 applications in the 2012 round The first round of ICANN's New gTLD Program, which opened for applications in 2012. Full definition of 2012 round.
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Three companies from the United Arab Emirates want to run new web endings. Together they have eight requests in a program run by ICANN, the group that manages internet names. Some ask for words like island, truck and portal, and Telegram wants .telegram and .gram. Back in 2012, UAE companies sent 37 of the 1,930 requests.