Call to action over new gTLDs
18 May 2009
James Nurton, Seattle
Brand owners have until the end of this week to comment on proposals to provide rights protection mechanisms for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs), which could be introduced before the end of this year
J Scott Evans of Yahoo! told the INTA Daily News that, while the business community remains divided over whether new gTLDs should be launched, trademark owners need to be prepared: “If it does happen, we need to have precautions in place.”
Evans is a member of ICANN’s Implementation Recommendation Team (IRT), which is due to submit its final report on rights protection mechanisms to the ICANN Board on May 24. The 18-member IRT published draft proposals...
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