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Perspective

Apr. 19, 2012

ICCAN’s new gTLD program: moving beyond .com

New gTLDs can be generic names in any language or script. By Katy Basile of Novak Druce + Quiff LLP


By Katy Basile


Change is coming again to the Internet, this time in the form of hundreds of new generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs. In June 2011, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numers announced that it would release all kinds of new gTLDs in order to "foster diversity, encourage competition, and enhance the utility" of the domain name system. The application window for new gTLDs opened on January 12 and closed on April 12. By mid-May,...

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