Shaky ground: cracks in the gTLD application process

The champagne was on ice. The deadline edged closer, and by the end of April 12, 2012, the last chance to apply for a generic top-level domain (gTLD) would have passed. A three-month window, which some had thought would never open, was set to close. But then the news came, bringing with it almost an air of inevitability: “We have learned of a possible glitch in the TLD application system software that has allowed a limited number of users to view some other users’ file names and user names.”