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by comex 2474 days ago
> When ICANN does issue new TLDs, they’ll only allow at most 500 new TLDs per year. The likelihood of conflict is low even though conflicts can technically happen.

Oh, "only" 500? Out of which a substantial fraction will be common words and therefore likely to be squatted on if Handshake is even remotely popular? I wondered if Handshake was at least trying to reserve English words, but apparently not, judging by this:

    Names which were added _after_ the final snapshot:

    - `charity` - A new gTLD added on ICANN's system.
    - `inc` - A new gTLD added on ICANN's system.
- https://github.com/handshake-org/hs-names/blob/master/README...

Please tell me there's something I'm missing...