An applicant can choose to designate its application as a general application or a specialized application, both of which are subject to ICANN's evaluation to confirm the designation.
A general application is any application that does not fall into a specialized type. It is subject to the standard set of requirements set out in the Applicant Guidebook and does not have any conditional requirements or designations.
A specialized application has conditional requirement(s) and designation(s), depending on 1) the type of the applied-for string; 2) the type of applicant; and/or 3) the intended use of the applied-for string. See the various designations for a specialized application in the list below:
- Geographic Name application
- Reserved Name application
- Community Application
- .Brand TLD application
- Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) application
- Variant string application
- Application from governments or inter-governmental organizations (IGOs)
- Application from an applicant that qualifies for assistance through the Applicant Support Program