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New gTLDs: Does anyone care?

By Mark VB Partridge

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ICANN is working on plans to allow operation of an unlimited number of Top Level Domains, or TLDs. I am a member of an Implementation Recommendation Team, created by the ICANN Board to develop procedures to avoid user confusion and trademark infringement in the new gTLD space. As a result, I am interested to see the reaction of the Internet and business community to the new gTLDs. So far, most comments I receive are skeptical. This attitude is reflected in an article posted yesterday on The Industry Standard - "Latest Plan for Domain Names is as Doomed as .coop and ...

Full post as published by Guiding Rights Blog on April 09, 2009 (boomark / email).

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