If approved, the new gTLDs, applied for by cities, corporations and other entities, will join the familiar cadre of .com, .org, .edu and .gov at the end of web addresses.
The Catholic Church's unified voice -- and pocketbook -- may have been an advantage. There were no applications for .protestant, .lutheran, .baptist or .anglican. Nor were there any applicants for .jewish, .hindu or .buddhist.
Howevever, there was one application for .islam from a Turkish company that also applied for .halal.
IRI Domain Management, LLC applied for .mormon and .lds referring to the Church of Latter Day Saints.
The blog Religion Clause has a full rundown of religious connections among the applied for gTLDs. USA Today's latest pieceon the LifeChurch.tv megachurch highlights one of two applicants for the .church domain.
Incidentally, ICANN's domain list may be the only place where .church comes right before .cialis, for which pharmaceutical manufacturer Eli Lilly and Co. applied.