The nonprofit in charge of the world's Internet domains will meet in San Francisco next month, and plenty of eyes are nervously watching the process by which it will decide how to green light new generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs)—suffixes such as ".com," ".org," or ".info." The International Committee on Assigned Numbers and Names (ICANN) is circulating proposals for handling the next application round.
It's a tricky business. We've already reported on the Recording Industry Association of America's bid to make it simpler to object to new gTLDs that Big Content thinks could facilitate more illegal content sharing. Now there's a new concern. The United States government's Department of Commerce has proposed revisions that would give nations veto power over gTLDs.
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