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Plenty of .protections for the Web domain expansion

by Rod Beckstrom, Marina del Ray, California. The writer is president and chief executive of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Letter to the editor, The Washington Post, Published: December 18, 2011. "When I saw the Dec. 12 editorial 'What's the .rush?' I had to ask, 'What .rush?'

The program of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to open the Internet to new top-level domain names (TLDs) has been anything but rushed. It took more than six years of thoughtful discussion, debate and study involving governments and intellectual property experts from around the globe. About 60 technical papers and independent reports, plus analysis of 2,400 comments, informed seven versions of carefully crafted rules that will govern the award of a new TLD..."

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