I think ICANN does not mean to introduce "name.a.com" names.
What they mean in the text quoted by you is, I think, that making it possible to
have a longer "name" (nameA, name AZ etc.) in name.com gives 37 times extra names
per extra character. (37 being a-z, 0-9 and -)
So by letting you have say 256
characters in your second level name, as I saw with at least one ccTLD, they make
much more names available than by adding thousands of TLDs. Question is of course
if anybody wants long names. I have one of 63 characters, but that is a joke as well
as a test to see if it works (it does and doesn't, see link). Another matter:
why .web? What has it got that .net has not? Lots of names in .net available. Loose
the fixation on .com, not by introducing new gTLDs but by using the other two.
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