The possibility of new gTLDs being made available in mid-2008 received extremely wide coverage via an Associated Press story. AP quoted Paul Twomey from the ICANN announcement saying “This is all about choice. We want the diversity of the world’s people, geography and business to be able to be represented in the domain name system.” AP notes that some critics have complained ICANN has been slow to approve new names and procedures have sometimes been arbitrary. While businesses and trademark owners worry that more gTLDs will lead to more cybersquatting.The move is regarded as a “welcome step” by Burke Hansen writing in The Register who concludes his article saying he’s “argued in the past that ICANN should publish clear and consistent rules for gTLD registration, and allow anyone who fulfills the requirements to sink or swim on their own.”For the full AP story in The Age click here, or go to the ICANN announcement here. The Register story is available here.
New gTLDs could come in mid-2008
The possibility of new gTLDs being made available in mid-2008 received extremely wide coverage via an Associated Press story. AP quoted Paul Twomey from the ICANN announcement saying “This is all about choice. We want the diversity of the world’s people, geography and business to be able to be represented in the domain name system.” AP notes that some critics have complained ICANN has been slow to approve new names and procedures have sometimes been arbitrary. While businesses and trademark owners worry that more gTLDs will lead to more cybersquatting. The move is regarded as a “welcome step” by Burke Hansen writing in The Register who concludes his article saying he’s “argued in the past that ICANN should publish clear and consistent rules for gTLD registration, and allow anyone who fulfills the requirements to sink or swim on their own.”