Source: BrandShelter News
Date: June 4, 2010

A fourth draft of the Applicant Guidebook that describes the process of applying for new generic top-level domains was released by ICANN on May 31, 2010 along with explanatory memoranda and detailed analysis of comments received.

The new version has important new content, for example:
- Incorporation of trademark protections, including improvements to the Uniform Rapid Suspension (URS), the Trademark Clearinghouse (TM Clearinghouse), and the Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Proposal (PDDRP);
- Changes to rules for geographic TLDs, including a prohibition on country names as gTLDs;
- A new gTLD Registry transition process model, including provisions for emergency transition in the case of prolonged Registry technical outages;
- A model for providing centralized zone file access (ZFA) to aid in combating malicious conduct;
- A revised base Registry agreement, the contract future registries must sign with ICANN, including new features such as:
+ Registry-Registrar cross-ownership language;
+ Emergency Registry transition provision;
+ Special new agreement provisions for governmental and inter-governmental organization (IGO) applicants -- based on negotiations with Universal Postal Union (UPU) for .post (subject to modification for different circumstances of other similar organizations);
+ New "hybrid" process for future amendments;
+ New provisions for centralized registry zone file access (ZFA).

ICANN announcement:
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-31may10-en.htm

Here you can download the PDF:
http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/draft-rfp-clean-28may10-en.pdf

More information:
http://www.brandtlds.com/

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