International organizations letter against new gTLDs
OPEN LETTER FROM INTERGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS ON THE EXPANSION OF GENERIC TOP LEVEL DOMAINS
To:
Rod Beckstrom, CEO and President
Steve Crocker, Chairman, Board of Directors
Kurt Pritz, Senior Vice President
cc:
Governmental Advisory Committee
ICANN Legal Counsel: John Jeffrey, Amy Stathos
Re: Protection Against the Misleading Use of the Names and Acronyms of International Intergovernmental Organizations in the Domain Name System
We, the Legal Counsels of the public international intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) indicated hereunder are writing to convey to you the concerns of the IGO community. The IGO community concerns relate to the increased potential for the misleading registration and use of IGO names and acronyms in the domain name system under ICANN's significant expansion plans.
- ICANN
- Internet governance
- Top-Level Domains (generic)
- Transparency & Accountability
- Intellectual Property
- Regulation
- Public policy
- Second Level Domains
- Security
- World Tourism Organization
- Computing
- Domain name
- Domain name system
- Generic top-level domain
- ICANN
- Identifiers
- Intergovernmental organization
- International organization
- International relations
- Internet
- Internet governance
- Internet in the United States
- Office of Legal Affairs
- Rod Beckstrom
- Social Issues
- Technology
- Top-level domain
- War
- World government
- World Trade Organization
- Social Issues
- Technology
- War
- ICANN
- counsel
- Vice President
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