Jacqui Cheng writes in ars technica on the proposal for a .LAT gTLD for the Latino community:The Latino community may soon have its own top-level domain, .LAT, if a proposal by two organizations goes through. eCOM-LAC, an organization that works to ensure regional representation of Latin America, and NIC Mexico, the entity that manages the top-level domain of .MX for Mexico, announced the new extension earlier this month as an effort to “identify, differentiate, and add value to Internet resources related with Latinos.”Because Latin American culture extends far beyond the geographical boundaries of any one (or several) countries, the organizations feel that .LAT will help identify culturally-targeted sites to the community and the rest of the world. The domain extension has not yet been approved by ICANN, but the definition of .LAT will get the ball rolling while eCOM-LAC and NIC Mexico complete the application to have it approved as a new top-level domain.ICANN’s Jason Keenan told us that there is still currently no process to apply for new TLDs, however — the process for approving new domains is still in development. Therefore, any talk of applying for new domains is just “batting around ideas” in advance of ICANN’s next round of applications, which is expected to open in mid-2008. Depending on the complexity of the application and how much contention there is over the same string, some applications will gain approval quickly while others will take quite a bit longer.Jacqui’s full article is available from arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071126-latino-groups-seek-lat-domain-to-transcend-political-boundaries.html
Latino groups seek .LAT domain to transcend political boundaries
Jacqui Cheng writes in ars technica on the proposal for a .LAT gTLD for the Latino community: The Latino community may soon have its own top-level domain, .LAT, if a proposal by two organizations goes through. eCOM-LAC, an organization that works to ensure regional representation of Latin America, and NIC Mexico, the entity that manages the top-level domain of .MX for Mexico, announced the new extension earlier this month as an effort to “identify, differentiate, and add value to Internet resources related with Latinos.”