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Mastering ICANN’s New gTLD Program

What ICANN is, what the 2012 round taught us, how an application for your own top-level domain works, and the DNS basics you need to run one. With a glossary of the records that matter.

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Course content

  1. Introduction to the New gTLD Program

    1. General introduction
    2. Who or what is ICANN?
    3. Types of top-level domains
    4. The 2012 New gTLD Program
    5. What about the 2026 round of new gTLDs?
    6. What will be new in the upcoming round?

  2. Lessons from the 2012 round

    1. City TLDs
    2. Brand TLDs
    3. Regional TLDs
    4. Internationalised (IDN) TLDs

  3. The application process

    1. Requirements for applicants
    2. Evaluation and approval

  4. Managing your gTLD

    1. Securing communications with DNS records

  5. Future trends in domain names

    1. Outlook
    2. Emerging technologies

  6. Glossary

    1. Root zone operators
    2. DNS records
    3. TLS certificate
    4. CAA records
    5. A records
    6. AAAA records
    7. CNAME records
    8. NS records
    9. MX records
    10. TXT records
    11. SRV records
    12. PTR records
    13. DMARC
    14. SPF (Sender Policy Framework)
    15. DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail)

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