Brand Owners and U.S. Government Tell ICANN: Domain Name Plan Will Confuse Consumers and Hurt Us – Especially in These Tough Economic Times

By the time Paul Twomey, President of ICANN, walked out of his office on January 7, 2009, he had received over 300 comments on his organization’s new generic top level domain name (gTLD) plan, many from angry representatives of the world’s top companies and some from the U.S. government, including the Departments of Commerce and Justice.

Since then, ICANN has released a report from economics Professor Dennis Carlton of the University of Chicago claiming, predictably, that the planned unprecedented expansion of the domain name system will help consumers “realize significant benefits from new gTLDs due to increased competition for new registrants and increased innovation that would likely be fostered by entry.”

Game on.

Even the Vatican has weighed in.

Jamie N. Nafziger
Partner Dorsey & Whitney LLP http://www.dorsey.com/

Full Story: http://www.dorsey.com/nafziger_icann/

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