In the growth of the Internet, it became desirable to expand the initial set of six generic top-level domains in 1984.
As a result, new top-level domain names have been proposed for implementation by ICANN.
Such proposals included a variety of models ranging from the adoption of policies for unrestricted gTLDs that could be registered by anyone for any purpose, to chartered gTLDs for specialized uses by specialized organizations.
[1] In October 2000, ICANN published a list of proposals for top-level domain strings it had received.
The following countries have national languages that use other scripts than Latin but have no internationalized country code top-level domain, and none proposed in the above list: These proposals are centered on creating an independent Internet identity for linguistic and cultural communities.