Fifteen companies that applied for new gTLDs .HOME, .MAIL and .CORP wrote a collective letter to ICANN, reports Domain Incite. They ask the corporation to reconsider the decision it’s made about postponing the delegation of these domains indefinitely.
The reason for this step at the time was the concern of so-called name collision. The problem is that HOME, .MAIL and .CORP are very often used in internal networks of large companies. Tech experts worry that appearance of corresponding new domains can lead to very serious problems – from confidential corporate data breaches to systems total break down. During technical tests in 2013 right before the start of this cycle of the new domains program it was determined that generic top-level domain .HOME that actually doesn't exist received around 880 million DNS queries. 110 million more queries were received by .CORP.
ICANN announced that it would consult about the future of these domains with Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). However, in the last years the decision to forbid delegation of .HOME, .MAIL and .CORP wasn't made. Obviously, applicants for the domains took it as a good sign and now ask ICANN to reconsider its point of view. Additional incentive for them was probably research conducted by JAS Advisors published in the end of 2015 and commissioned by ICANN itself. It concluded that mass launch of new gTLDs didn't cause any serious name collision problems.
