As many of you may already know, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Named and Numbers) revealed the applications it received for newTLDs on June 13, 2012.  Some high-level information on the applications are as follows:

• ICANN received a total of 1930 applications after withdrawals
• 1846 of these were "standard" applications
• 84 were designated as "community" applications
• 66 were designated as "geographic name" applications
• 116 applications are IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names)
• Applications were received from 60 different countries
  • 911 applications from North America
  • 675 from Europe
  • 303 from Asia-Pacific
  • 24 from Latin America/Caribbean
  • 17 from Africa
• 230 applications had at least 2 or more applicants (751 competing applications), which will result in auctions if approved

Industry News on the NewTLDs:

• Donuts.co, a company led by Internet industry entrepreneurs with highly successful track records, applied for 307 new Top-Level-Domains.  View Press Release
• Afilias Limited, the operator of the .INFO, .MOBI and .PRO top level domains (TLD) and a leading provider of registry technical services, today announced that its technology will support 305 new generic TLD applications. View Press Release
• Snapnames Co-Founder, Ray King, is applying for 10 new Top-Level-Domains.  View
• Neustar has been selected to be the Registry Services Provider for 358 Top-Level-Domain applications. View Press Release
• Frank Schilling applies for 54 new Top-Level-Domains according to Paul Sloan of CNET. View
• VeriSign is the backend provider for 220 new Top-Level-Domain applicants while also applying for 14 themselves.  View

For a full list of all newTLDs applications, please visit http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/application-results/strings-1200utc-13jun12-en.