Originally Posted by DotXXX

There were approximately 1k common word, generic premium names reserved by ICM Registry, which is significantly LESS than the usual 5k or so reserved by most new TLD's. Some of those we will be developing as search/traffic/resource portals. The vast majority of them however, we would like to see developed and we encourage people to contact us with development ideas.

Anything that is showing as being in an auction would be from Landrush, and those are closed auctions only between the people that bid for the name during that phase of launch, not an open auction.