ICANN Corporation published block-lists for second-level domain names for four new domain zones. Block-lists are composed on the basis of root-servers addresses yearly research. Domain names from the block-lists cannot be a subject to registration to avoid conflict because of string similarity. These conditions maintenance will allow the registries to become participants of new domains delegation advanced plan.
All four domain mentioned above are internationalized, at this two of them are cyrillic .сайт and .онлайн. Also block-lists are composed for domains شبكة. (Arabic “network”) and .游戏 (Chinese “game”).
Experts note that the published block-lists will hardly influence mentioned domain zones development cause all four of them are internationalized and the biggest part of the blocked strings use latin coding ASCII symbol set. Thus for domain zone .сайт 680 strings are subject to block, however just 80 of them are internationalized. Also ICANN definitely strives for taking measures of trademarks owners protection even before domains delegating. For example domains nokia.游戏, htc.游戏 and ipad.游戏 are blocked in the domain zone .游戏. Among other blocked strings there are iphone.сайт, brazzersnetwork.онлайн and شبكة.redbull. Moreover, the blockage touches several strings containing commonly used notions in English writing. In particular in domain zone .онлайн it is forbidden to register domains football, drinks, poker and sex.
