ICANN will use lottery to determine top-level domain names (gTLD)

The Internet name and digital address allocation Agency (ICANN) has suggested using an old-fashioned lottery to decide which new top-level domain applications to process first, and to legalize the lottery, it wants to exploit a loophole in California's law. ICANN was set to use the "Digital Archery" contest to determine which new generic top-level domain names (gTLD) should be processed first, such as. Security,. Beer, ICANN needs such a system because they cannot process all 1923 GTLD applications at once. Applicants want to process their applications first, but ICANN says they can handle only 1000 applications a year. Using the digital archery method, applicants need to keep their digital arrows close to the time marker's bull-eye as much as possible, a method that was canceled in June because the applicant complained that the method was unfair. ICANN has been considering another approach. One method is the lottery, but California's non-profit ICANN must comply with California law-prohibiting unlicensed lottery. However, ICANN has found loopholes in the law. "In California and other relevant jurisdictions, allow specific non-profit organizations (including ICANN) to draw lottery drawings," Icann said. "ICANN has registered for a permit and is expected to be licensed by the end of November." "The lottery will be a manual process. Each applicant is required to purchase a 100-dollar sign (purchased by the applicant himself or his representative), and ICANN plans to draw a lottery between December 4 and 15th. The results of the balloting will be used to arrange the preliminary assessment, which will be announced in late March next year. The balloting will also be used later to schedule a pre-licensing test, with approximately 20 authorized tests per week and 20 contracts executed. ICANN said: "No contract will be fully implemented until ICANN meets in Beijing (April 7 to 11th)." Jannik Skou, a partner at the consulting firm Trampedach, said he preferred the lottery form to the digital archery. But Skou is also dissatisfied with this new form, especially as ICANN decides to give priority to the assessment of Internationalized Domain name (IDN) applications. 114 gTLD applications that use non-Latin text (such as Chinese, Arabic, or Japanese) will be given priority to promote diversity. "I'm confused as to why IDN will be given priority," says Skou. "If companies like Yahoo or Google know beforehand that IDN will be a priority, they may apply for a Chinese gtld first, which should be announced in advance." The final determination of the lottery form depends on two: the applicant's response (the applicant still has four weeks to comment) and whether California is licensed. There will undoubtedly be a lot of criticism in the public consultation process. Fairwinds, an Internet information company, said in a post that this would be a hot topic for ICANN's meeting in Toronto.