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1. Comment - ICANN moves toward completely opening top-level domains

   (Jun 27, 2008 - 1:34 PM)

   I don't see an explosion of value-added websites. If someone has an idea there are already millions of available domain names just by creating a new 'word' (e.g. Twitter). People and companies are creating websites today at the exact pace they would be creating them if the floodgates had already opened.
   
   All this ruling will do is expand the market for squatters and copyright infringement lawsuits. Companies will be forced to waste money to buy up all of the potential domain names for their trademarked names. They will also line lawyer's pockets as they move to shut down bogus sites and phishing operations that grab any unnoticed space using the company's name.
   
   While I am confident that The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) had a robust debate and made certain that they had considered these issues, there is really no need to expand the root domains beyond supporting non-Roman alphabets. Even in those cases, they should allow current trademark holders to buy their own names across each new domain at a fair price.