GoKawiilICANN Publishes New gTLD Application for .lan
ICANN's Application Publication System has listed a new application for the .lan generic top-level domain. Details of the applicant and intended use were not accessible from the source, which required JavaScript to view full content.
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The .lan string could be contentious because it is already widely used internally by routers and home networks as a non-routable local domain, which may raise technical and security concerns among domain-governance stakeholders. Approval of such a gTLD could prompt scrutiny from ICANN's technical review processes given the risk of name collisions with existing private network configurations.
- A new gTLD application for '.lan' has appeared in ICANN's Application Publication System.
- '.lan' is commonly used as a default local network domain, raising possible name-collision concerns.
- Further applicant details were not available due to a technical access issue on the source site.
Source: newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org, 2026-10-08
Published there as: “New gTLD Application for .lan”
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