"Beckstrom says ICANN deliberated this move for six years and will take steps to protect brand names. Besides, he says, there is demand for the new domains.
But Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, disagrees.
"My sense is that a lot of this demand is just absolutely artificial and largely imagined by the ICANN board," Leibowitz says. "We're an agency that's required to protect consumers, and from our perspective, this is a potential disaster and we have an obligation ... to speak out."
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:11 PM, warigia bowman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
There was an ICANN story on NPR this morning. It made it sound like the extra domain names are a big mistake, and are going to add confusion to the Internet, and force people to do defensive spending to protect that IP in cyberspace.
Thoughts?
Rigia