NCC Group plc. and ARI Registry Services announced a program to assist prospective applicants with the management of their new domains. Under the terms of this agreement, NCC Group will refer prospective applicants to ARI Registry Services for technical back-end registry services and consulting, and ARI Registry Services will refer prospective applicants to NCC Group for data escrow and IT assurance services. The new Top-Level Domain program was given the go-ahead in Singapore on June 20, 2011 by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the global governing body for internet addresses. The monumental shake-up will see domain names move beyond the increasingly saturated .com space to a large number of generic domains. The new gTLD program will allow for new Internet extensions similar to .com, .biz and .info to be applied for and introduced, with interest currently being shown for extensions representing brands (for example .canon), generic words (.shop or .web) and geographic locations (.paris). As part of the gTLD application process, applicants must demonstrate how they will satisfy many different ICANN accreditation criteria. One critical requirement is to establish daily transfers of domain registration data to a reputable escrow agent such as NCC Group.