Applications for ICANN’s new Top Level Domains closed on 12 April 2012

Belgium

ICANN, the governing body of the Internet, has received applications for more than 1,000 new domains with extensions such as “.sports”, “.hotel”, “.africa” or “.brussels”. Applications were received until 12 April 2012 and, as from 1 May 2012, undertakings should check whether there are any applications that infringe their intellectual property rights.