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[ NNSquad ] AP on ICANN's new gTLDs


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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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren 
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org 
Founder:
 - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org
 - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org 
 - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
 - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com 
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren 
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com
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