Companies issue safety warning over new gTLDs
19 April 2009
Eileen McDermott, New York
More than 100 companies have backed claims that ICANN’s plan to expand the generic top-level domain (gTLD) system will threaten consumer health and safety
The deadline for public comments to the second version of the Draft Applicant Guidebook was Monday. In a letter signed by 100 companies, including 3M, BBC Worldwide, eBay, Ford Motor, Microsoft, Paramount Pictures, Viacom and Visa, MarkMonitor president and CEO, Irfan Salim, said that the plan still poses major risks to IP owners.
Although he commended ICANN for making changes to the first version of its Draft Applicant Guidebook, such as creating an implementation recommendation team to specifically address trade mark protection problems posed by the gTLD expansion, Salim’s letter went on to outline...
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