ICANN’s recent announcement they will begin a process to approve more gTLDs (generic Top Level Domains) has generated significant interest with a number of proposals mooted. One TLD that seems to be popular is .sport with two proposals announced. The second is dotSport LLC, a consortium led by its founder and chief executive officer Ron Andruff (former CEO and founder of Tralliance Corporation, the .travel Registry).Patrick Vande Walle was the first to announce his interest in the gTLD back in June following TechNewsReview’s discovery of a registered trademark application to the EU’s Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market.To gain support for his proposal, Andruff has opened dialogue with the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Association of Summer Olympic International Sports Federations (ASOIF), the General Association of International Sports Federations (GAISF), numerous members of the Association of the IOC Recognized International Sports Federations (ARISF), and International World Games Association (IWGA) federations, as well as professional sports institutions such as the English Premier League.”In light of ICANN adding what many believe could be 200 to 2,000 new top-level domains to the A-root of the Internet domain name system in the coming years, .sport – the new, exclusive space on the Internet for the global sporting world – will take on significant importance both in the near-term and in the decades to come,” said Andruff.More information on Andruff’s .sport proposal is available from dotsportllc.com/index.php?pageId=8 while Patrick van de Walle’s proposal is outlined at patrick.vande-walle.eu/internet/icann/discover-sport-at-egeni-paris-20th-june/.