<br>Here is the NPR article if anyone wants to take a look. <br><br><a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/01/12/145042807/critics-see-disaster-in-expansion-of-domain-names">http://www.npr.org/2012/01/12/145042807/critics-see-disaster-in-expansion-of-domain-names</a><br>
<br>a clip . . . <br><p style="color:rgb(51,102,255)">"Beckstrom says ICANN deliberated this move for six years and will
take steps to protect brand names. Besides, he says, there is demand for
the new domains.</p><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255)"> </span><p style="color:rgb(51,102,255)">But Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, disagrees.</p><span style="color:rgb(51,102,255)"> </span><p style="color:rgb(51,102,255)">
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sense is that a lot of this demand is just absolutely artificial and
largely imagined by the ICANN board," Leibowitz says. "We're an agency
that's required to protect consumers, and from our perspective, this is a
potential disaster and we have an obligation ... to speak out."</p><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Alex Gakuru <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gakuru@gmail.com">gakuru@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">don't fall for commercial fear mongering - have a read: <a href="http://www.mediaterrorism.net/" target="_blank">http://www.mediaterrorism.net/</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:11 PM, warigia bowman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:warigia@aucegypt.edu" target="_blank">warigia@aucegypt.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">There was an ICANN story on NPR this morning. It made it sound like the extra domain names are a big mistake, and are going to add confusion to the Internet, and force people to do defensive spending to protect that IP in cyberspace. <br>
<br>Thoughts? <br><br>Rigia<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><br>
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