Coalition To Fight ICANN's New Domain Name Plan

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Nearly 90 industry groups and companies announced they have formed a new coalition to try to block a plan, to allow for the introduction of an unlimited number of new Internet addresses.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the nonprofit group that manages the Internet's "top level" domain name system, plans to vastly expand the domain name space from the 22 groups of names such as .com now available to Internet users to almost any name such as .bank or .angrybirds. The Coalition for Responsible Internet Domain Oversight says that ICANN's domain name plan will have costly implications for trademark owners, who could be forced to register their names in every new domain name launched or offer their own Internet address. The coalition also argues that ICANN has not taken their concerns seriously enough and failed to follow the consensus-driven process ICANN is supposed to use when enacting such new proposals. ICANN is currently slated to begin accepting applications under the new domain name program in January.


Coalition To Fight ICANN's New Domain Name Plan New coalition forms to fight Web domain-name plan (The Hill)