ICANN backflips on batching for new TLDs

01.08.2012

"While we believe that the risk will be minimal that there will be more than 1000 TLDs delegated into the root, [ICANN still needs] to address that in the event something happens they may need to introduce something that reduces that bottleneck.

"It's a positive thing for ICANN to be asking the community their opinion. What they've asked is the community provide public comment on how they should deal with the event that there may very well be more than 1000 TLDs needed to be delegated into the root at the conclusion of the evaluation process."