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Originally Posted by Admin God
I think ICANN is directly responsible for .gov and .edu so they verify any and all domains under those TLD's before allowing registration. Of course though, someone could probably register for the new TLD of .government or some variation.
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None of them are run by ICANN, ICANN doesn't really run anything they just make decisions regarding them, .gov is owned by
General Services Administration (US only) and .edu is owned by educause, which is a non profit (can't be bought out) so neither of those are (probably) going anywhere. But ICANN just approves TLDs, it doesnt own or run any of them (aside from .test and such)
.government and .education and .organization will all be up for grabs though, and while a few legitimate parties that fit those descriptions might use them, if a commercial organization runs the registry and decides not to make any rules regarding them, they will be open season. (technically .org already is though)