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26 June 2008

ICANN approves new gTLDs

Managing Intellectual Property

The existence of conflicting IP rights will be one of four criteria that can be used to challenge applications for new generic top-level domains, under plans agreed by ICANN this week

At its Board meeting yesterday, ICANN approved the biggest-ever expansion of the gTLD space, potentially allowing anyone to apply to run a gTLD.




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