ICANN continues to expand top-level domain despite outside pressure

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time January 5 morning, despite the industry criticism and some of the law enforcement concerns, but the Internet name and number distribution agencies (hereinafter referred to as "ICANN") will continue to promote the top-level domain name expansion plan, and began to accept the new domain name application next week. Many large enterprises have been faced with the infringement of registered trademarks because of domain name registration, and in order to avoid image damage, some enterprises even need to pay high prices for unused domain names.　　ICANN's latest decisions will cause more concern for companies. Lawrence Strickling, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information Services, Lawrence strickling in Wednesday, called on ICANN to take measures to reduce the pressure on companies to register domain names. In a letter to ICANN, he said: "By meeting with the industry for a few weeks, we have learned that many people are worried that this project will lead to many unintended consequences and threaten its success." ICANN said in Wednesday that it would evaluate Stricklin's recommendations. "We are grateful to the Stricklin Assistant Minister for their comments and suggestions," said Steve Crocker, the agency's chairman, in a statement Steve Crock. "ICANN's new top-level domain name is USD 185,000, and the agency will accept applications from January 12, but it is not clear what time it is used."　　A person close to ICANN said the agency would slow the process. But ICANN is not ready to postpone expansion of its new domain name, a move that would attract more Web site innovation and be open to non-la-thong characters.　　ICANN has also pledged to quickly revoke the domain names that violate registered trademarks.　　Stricklin also called on ICANN to better identify the specific controllers of the Web site in order to cooperate with law enforcement when certain websites are being used for criminal activities. But Dan Gaffie Dan Jaffe, the American Advertising Association's lobby director, is worried that companies will be forced to spend millions of of dollars monitoring IPR infringement. "This is a historical problem, rooted in the failure of ICANN to do its job."　　"he said. Jim Lewis, a technical expert at the Center for Strategic and Analysys Studies, the US think-tank, said the 185,000-dollar high application fee would help deter malicious perpetrators. "A slow deployment might be better. It is entirely understandable that companies are concerned about brand damage. "he said. (PEI)