Volume IX

Issue : 14: March 24, 2011

• Microsoft-Motorola Patent Dispute Intensifies
• Mosaid Technologies Sues RIM, Intel and others for Patent Infringement
• Microsoft Civil Search Warrants Shut Down Rustock Botnet
• Netflix Facing Allegations of Privacy Violations
• Google Accuses China of Blocking Gmail
• Governments and ICANN Dispute over the Creation of Domain Suffixes
• Amazon Ends Affiliate Program in Illinois

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Governments and ICANN Dispute over the Creation of Domain Suffixes

National governments and ICANN (“Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers”) continue to disagree on the question of how much influence government officials and trademark owners will have over the process of creating new domain suffixes.  There are currently hundreds of applications for the creation of suffixes, such as .car, .love, .movie, .web, and .gay.

Governments would like to have greater ability to object to proposed suffixes, while ensuring that trademark owners have more power to monitor any new domain names registered under those suffixes.  ICANN has rejected these proposals.  As a result, there is a push by some governments to transfer ICANN’s domain name authority to a United Nations Agency.

ICANN lists 23 areas of disagreement over rules for approving new top-level domain names.

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