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Brand owners recommend gTLD measures

04 May 2009

James Nurton, London

Representatives of Lego, Yahoo!, Richemont, Time Warner and Microsoft are among a group that has proposed measures to protect brand owners when new generic top-level domains are launched

ICANN, the body that regulates the internet, asked the 15-member Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT) to consider having standardised rights protection mechanisms to reduce the impact of new generic top-level domains on IP rights owners.

The IRT published its report on April 24.

Its proposals include having a centralised database of verified IP rights, establishing a faster, cheaper...



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