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[ PRIVACY Forum ] AP on ICANN's new gTLDs
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AP on ICANN's new gTLDs
http://j.mp/KuAXAJ (AP / ajc)
But there's a question of how useful the new names will be.
Alternatives to ".com" introduced over the past decade have had mixed
success. These days, Internet users often find websites not by typing
in the address but by using a search engine. And with mobile devices
getting more popular, people are using apps to bypass Web browsers
entirely. Many businesses worry that they'll have to police the
Internet for addresses that misuse their brands, in many cases paying
to register names simply to keep them away from others. It was one
thing having some 300 suffixes; it's another to have thousands. "One
thing that's going to occur is a lot of money is going to get sucked
out of the ecosystem," said Lauren Weinstein, co-founder of People For
Internet Responsibility and a strong critic of ICANN. "The cost is
billions and billions of dollars with no value returned to people and
an enormous capacity for confusion."
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