As I wrote,
the ICANN board of directors instructed its staff to enter into negotiations on the following new top-level domains in
This is my personal recollection of the legaleese in the actual resolution.
So this Question may be dumb, but are these Domains _approved_ now or are they still in Negotiations if they should be approved?
My personal interpretation of this is that the tlds are ideed approved, but contracts with ICANN still have to be negotiated and again approved by the board. My understanding of this is that unless somebody realy screws up the negotiations theese will happen.
(From my POV the latter is true, other people say they are already approved, so... hm?)
The notes from the real time scribe (and note that theese are NOT official minutes) can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive/scribe-icann-111600.html and the mentioned resolution at: http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/la2000/archive/new-tld-res.html -hph