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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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alt="" height="101" width="126"></a>Last
weekend, the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced a really big
decision that will have a huge effect on the
Internet. You have probably heard about it. ICANN
is responsible, among other things, for the
management of top-level domain (TLD) names, such
as .com and .org, and they have decided to allow
organizations to establish "generic" top-level
domains (gTLDs) named after themselves, such as
.google or .coke. Will we see some library try to
grab the .library domain? Maybe, but there are a
few reasons why this might not happen. Aside from
the considerable application fee, securing and
maintaining a gTLD will be a big burden on an
organization, and a commitment that shouldn't be
undertaken without expectation of a strong return
on investment.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20072470-264/new-net-addresses-mean-new-trademark-issues/">New
Net addresses mean new trademark issues</a>
(CNET/Stephen Shankland) "ICANN will accept
applications from registries that want to
operate new top-level domains from January 12,
2012 to April 12, 2012. It's not for the faint
of heart: There's an application fee of
$185,000, it costs $25,000 a year to operate the
registry, and other fees are possible, too.
Those fees are very significant. Trademark
holders wanting to protect their intellectual
property might feel obliged to try to set up a
registry of their own to ward off a new class of
cybersquatters. And in some cases, rights to a
TLD registry might be decided through an
auction, which potentially could increase costs
in an unpredictable way."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/icann_approves_generic_top-level_domains_new_era_o.php">ICANN
approves generic top-level domains</a>
(ReadWriteWeb/Dan Rowinski) "ICANN is providing
safeguards to ward off mass cybersquatting. <a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/dag-en.htm">The Applicant
Guidebook</a> has gone through seven
significant revisions since 2008 that
incorporated 1,000 or so comments from the
public. The <a
href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/evaluation-procedures-clean-30may11-en.pdf">evaluation
procedures</a> [pdf] provide for background
screening of pre-applicants that measure
business history and look for history of
cybersquatting. It will conduct
string-similarity reviews to determine if the
domain is like anything else currently on the
Internet and assess the potential security risks
of creating a new TLD."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13835997">Icann
increases web domain suffixes</a> (BBC News)
"Companies and organisations seeking one of the
new gTLDs will have to meet high technical
standards, according to Bruce Tonkin, chief
strategy officer at Melbourne IT, a domain
registry service. 'You need IT robustness and
you need intellectual property protections
beyond what is available in the dot com space.
You have to have a 24/7 abuse team. You have to
have mechanisms where a trademark holder has
first right to get their name,' he said."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/new_gtlds_will_create_tens_of_thousands_new_jobs/">New
gTLDs will create tens of thousands of new
jobs</a> (CircleID/Johnny Du) "It has been
estimated that the typical gTLD application will
cost approximately $500,000. [...] That money
does not disappear into a vacuum, it's spent on
technical consulting, building out new
information systems, recruiting attorneys and
marketing specialists. Advertising agencies,
auction houses, intellectual property
consultancies, infrastructure providers,
software developers, hardware manufacturers, and
other business services will be needed, creating
more jobs."</li>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">No, OPLIN
will <em>not</em> be applying for the .oplin
top-level domain.
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