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The ICANN process for getting approval for a new TLD is quite slow and very stressful for TLD applicant. Making new and by ICANN not yet approved TLDs available could help to foster the development of the DNS. Firefox could easily enable lots of new TLDs and thereby give regional, cultural, linguistic or ethnic communities the opportunity to present themselves by an own identifier. Not to split up the Internet there can be only domains at those TLDs available for which the community indicates to apply at ICANN for an | The ICANN process for getting approval for a new TLD is quite slow and very stressful for TLD applicant. Making new and by ICANN not yet approved TLDs available could help to foster the development of the DNS. Firefox could easily enable lots of new TLDs and thereby give regional, cultural, linguistic or ethnic communities the opportunity to present themselves by an own identifier. Not to split up the Internet there can be only domains at those TLDs available for which the community indicates to apply at ICANN for an official approval of their TLD. | ||
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