ICANN is seeking feedback from registrants in the seven new Top Level Domains launched from 2001 on. Emails have been sent to a random selection of such registrants, asking them to participate in a survey.
ICANN decided on the seven new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs for short) in 2000 and they started being launched the following year. Since then, BIZ, .INFO, .NAME, .AERO, .COOP, .MUSEUM and .PRO have not all found the same level of success. Yet that hasn't stopped ICANN from planning a further raft of new TLDs (proposals include .ASIA and .MOBI) for 2005.
This further broadening of the Internet's name space has been criticised by some as unnecessary. Others have pointed out that before deciding upon more new extensions, ICANN should have analysed the impact of the original seven. ICANN's survey seems aimed at doing just that, albeit a little late since the new TLD selection process has already begun.
"The purpose of this survey is to provide guidance for long term policy on the Internet," ICANN explains on a specific section of its web site created for the survey. "This study is under way to examine the impact these new URLs have had on the Internet, including the reasons why people registered in them and how they are being used. For example, what was the primary reason that you registered the domain name? Is the name being used for a website or email, or neither? Your answers to these important questions will help guide ICANN through critical decisions in the next few months on future expansion of the Internet."
Registrants of domains in the new gTLDs have been randomly selected to receive an email from ICANN explaining the survey and asking them to log on to the web site to answer about a dozen questions.
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