ICANN Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) presented new data showing that only 8 states and territories agreed to use their names as names in new gTLDs. These are the USA, Great Britain, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Pitcairn and Guernsey. 10 more states, including Switzerland, Brazil, Belgium, Czech Republic, Montenegro and Georgia, gave a green light for using of their names in dot-brands. It means that, conditionally speaking, Sony has the right to register the brazil.sony name in its dot-brand. The names like finland.guru and similar to it can be registered in all new domains without any restrictions.
However, if to consider that the UN, for example, includes over 190 states, it is obvious that less than 10% of all countries in the world allow using their names. All others require the registration of the corresponding names to happen only with the approval of national authorities. Actually, such order is provided by the Registry Agreement of new domain registries with ICANN: the domain names coinciding with the names of states in six official languages of the UN (including Russian) can be registered only after obtaining governmental concurrence of the relevant state. Critics have repeatedly pointed out that the governments take very inconsistent position. They forbid the actions in new domains which are quite allowably in their national ones. For example, germany.de and deutschland.de in the national domain of Germany are registered by individuals, however it doesn't bother the government of the country. But Germany doesn't hurry to allow the registration of Germany and Deutschland names in new domains.
