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If Icann does not demonstrate that it genuinely intends to prevent abuse of trademarks, the two sides could end up in court, she warns.

This is often true because ICANN is responsible for many things, and also because there has been a lot of controversy.

ICANN, which has board members from every inhabited continent, was a way to take the administrative burden off the U. S. government.

Will ICANN be better situated to resist such pressures now that it no longer has a formal contract with the U. S. government?

an administrative proceeding by submitting a complaint in accordance with the Policy and these Rules to any Provider approved by ICANN.

The net regulator Icann has invited countries to ask for "internationalised domain names" in non-Latin characters.

Since then, however, ties between ICANN and the U. S. government have been loosened, giving the organization more independence.

That someone is ICANN, a California-based group that runs the Internet's naming and numbering systems under a contract with the U. S.

An ICANN cut loose from U. S. government oversight will not, for that reason, be free from political pressures.

ICANN was set up in 1998 and operated under the aegis of the U. S. Commerce Department.

A top-level domain name of up to 63 characters of just about any string of letters can be registered, Icann said.

If even ICANN cannot command the respect of its stakeholders, the entire multi-stakeholder model may be in danger.

In Dakar, ICANN passed a resolution to consider creating a support system to help rising economies with limited financial resources.

The most common domain extensions currently available and officially sanctioned by ICANN are shown in the list below.

The technical management of the domain name system is in the hands of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( "ICANN" ).

These Recommendations were transmitted by the Secretariat to the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

The change was overwhelmingly approved Monday in Singapore in a vote of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN.

The changes at ICANN come at a time when the number of addresses is set to expand dramatically.

ICANN officials met last month in Dakar, Senegal. Brad White says they discussed the new program for what are known as gTLDs.

Arab nations have also bristled under long delays in Icann's efforts to come up with a system that suits their needs.

One of ICANN's rules -- than no domains that are "confusingly similar" will be allowed -- could actually complicate matters on that front.

ICANN, the body that governs the assignment of domain names is currently in Nairobi for a 6 day annual meeting - ICANN no. 37.

ICANN has come up with procedures for any party to object to applications for trademark, or other reasons.

ICANN is expecting 300-500 applications when it opens its doors in the first quarter of next year, he said.

Icann's directors and advisors are meeting in Seoul this week to wrestle with some of the final technical issues.

ICANN has a multi-stakeholder policy development process that served as the foundation for the process design.

Under the new rule, people will be able to apply to ICANN to register most any word, in any language, as their domain ending.

Governments, even many Western ones, have long been unhappy with ICANN, which they think is not sufficiently transparent or accountable.

U. S. government delegates oversight of domain name policies to Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN.

But there are no penalties if ICANN fails to heed its new overseers short of a termination of the accord.

ICANN is headquartered in the United States in Marina del Rey, California.

Net regulator Icann has switched on a system that allows full web addresses to contain no Latin characters.

"The prospect of the Chinese having to deal with the space equivalent of ICANN is their worst nightmare, " he told me.

A recent meeting of Icann in Sydney descended into full-blown conflict over the issue.

Here's a breakdown of the vote that ICANN chairman Peter Dengate said "will usher in a new Internet age. "

ICANN, they say, resembles the kings and parliaments of old whose power is coercive and unconstrained.

At a meeting in Seoul ICANN agreed to allow countries to apply for internet addresses using characters from their national language.

These Rules may not be amended without the express written approval of ICANN.

ICANN says it will approve no more than one thousand new generic top-level domains each year.

ICANN says it costs tens of millions of dollars to write the guidelines for suffixes, review applications and resolve any disputes.

But according to reports from Vancouver, there is speculation that the EU put pressure on ICANN not to approve .

From next spring, if all goes according to plan, ICANN will accept bids from anyone who wants to create a new generic suffix.

ICANN is the international governing body for all domain names.

Icann president Rod Beckstrom described the change as "historic" .

In 2007, under pressure from China and Russia, ICANN finally allowed the use of non-Latin characters in online addresses.

With the new changes, ICANN will have a role in policing how gTLDs are operated, bought and sold.

The application process will open on January 12, 2012 and Icann is expected to have a list of names applied for by April.

The new domain system will also change how ICANN works.

The new group, the Internet Governance Forum, could also address any issue, such as spam or cybercrime, not currently covered by ICANN.

ICANN was established as a non-profit organization in 1998 in order to regulate the Internet.

ICANN is scheduled to begin reviewing applications early next year and says we should start seeing new domains in July 2012.

Icann has now invited registrations from countries to apply for internationalised country codes, such as . uk or . us.

As a result, ICANN has already set a rule that any one address must only draw from one language.

Icann will accept the first round of applications for addresses under the new rules from Jan. 12 to April 12.

On May 6 last year, Icann introduced Arabic-language suffixes for the country codes of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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