Lizzie,
Dont you know that keyboards all around te World are not all Roman letters
The Chinese keyboards for example have Chinese characters whilst the Arabs have Arabic
Oh yes they do, shocking that we don't all come from London and have our heads up our Roman Numerals

paul, Penang, Malaysia

Top level domains will cost from $100,000 not for the guy in the street!

Frank, London,

Why are these new names available only to rich people?

John S. Dearing, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

This is one needless total reorganization of the web landscape. Let the mad dash begins one more time! This time, all major companies will have to pay $100,000 each to ICANN for all the trademarks they own. Someone need to stop this madness... what are they thinking of?!?

Mike, Toronto, Canada

It's $100,000 to OWN AND ADMINISTRATE the top level domain, such as .london.

You will still be able to buy a www.mybusiness.london domain from the domain owner for the usual £10-20 per year in the same way as you buy a .co.uk or .com address.

It doesn't mean that each address wil cost a fortune.

clivex, Bristol, England

$100,000!!!!????? For what? Some DNS redirection and a registration at ICANN? Someone is going to be making a LOT of money for nothing here! This is totally against the spirit of the web, and allowing non-roman addressing is a step backards which will only increase censorship in developing nations.

Alastair, Alicante, Spain

where do I sign up?

andy, Beijing, China

Let's hope the new contracts are better written than the old ones. After going through the bureaucratic maze to report a French registrar who was selling domain names to criminals by the bucketload, I was told that the registrar was a SUB-contractor so ICANN was powerless to act.

Ian Kemmish, Biggleswade, UK

Bad idea. There's a huge benefit to Roman letters dominating. Keyboard standardization is why typing is a democratic, global skill allowing knowledge access & easy communcation for all. Cater to Cyrillic etc, suddenly like the piano it's specialist and exclusive. Very anti the spirit of the web.

Lizzie, London,

What if multiple people/organizations want the same top-level name? For instance, I would like to invest in dot-news (.news). I don't want anyone else to have it, obviously. Would I get it if I'm the first one to bid? Or does it go to the highest bidder, and if so how is that fair to the poor?

Eric, San Diego, USA

While ICANN and its press releases focus on the new "availability" of "top-level-domains," the assigned price tag is the real issue, and it represents an attempt to profit from repression of free public expression.

Another failure of Raunch, Inc.

Michael, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA

More meaningful domain-endings are needed in my opinion. If you live in the UK, a www.whatever.uk domain should be registered, without access to .net and the like. That would make it so much easier to see where a site was based, as a result making the internet more secure.

Matthew Jones, Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom

This does not seem to be a sensible way to organise internet addresses. The idea is that the second level domain is variable with the content of the website, but that the top-level domains are fixed categories, which usefully qualify the website. There is no point in TLDs if they, too, can vary.

James E. Petts, Burnham, England

One more useless idea from ICANN to create an even bigger mess with no benefit to users, only for their own pockets. Who needs more confusion and a bigger mess?

Joseph Martin, Los Angeles,

Sounds good to me. Where do I apply?

Larry, Stratford,

One should ask what exactly ICANN does with its income. One estimate indicates annual gross revenue of about $67 million. The Internet is creating another idiotic international bureaucracy loaded with extraordinary salaries, useless consultants and first-class global travel.

jock gleason, vienna, usa

And the money goes?? Where? Oh high wages of those in charge I guess!

Paul Davis, York, uk