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Telecommunications ICANN gears up to offer huge range of new top level domains
Telecommunications ICANN gears up to offer huge range of new top level domains | ICANN gears up to offer huge range of new top level domains |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 09 June 2009 | |
  
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He added: "There are concerns about domains that might appear to represent communities, such as dot Maori, but prove not to do so. And finally, there are questions of morality and public order - which is a well-defined concept in intellectual property law." Twomey said that ICANN expected the main demand for the new domains would come from entrepreneurs wanting generic names like .shop and .web. "The second group would appear to be people with brands and established reputations they want to protect. A lot of seem to be interested in the new names for email addresses." No process to allocate the new names has yet been developed but Twomey said cybersquatters or small companies with a legitimate claim to a word that also happens to be a global brand would be deterred by the $US185,000 application fee. "And that's a cost recovery figure - that is how much it will cost us to process the applications," Twomey said. A separate issue is how the global DNS structure will cope with resolving requests for potentially thousands of new top level domains, and this is just one challenge looming, according to Twomey. "We are doing a big review of scalability of DNS to see what the scaling issues would be with new TLDs. International top level domains, DNSSEC and IPv6 are all being introduced at the same time."
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