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Big Companies Trying To Monopolise .blog, .cloud and more

February 24, 2013 by Michele Neylon 2 Comments

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ICANN is currently evaluating a couple of thousand applications for new top level domains. Most of the applications are for new and interesting domain extensions (the bit on the right of the dot) that will provide greater consumer choice and foster competition.

Unfortunately a smaller subset is from a companies that believe they have special rights to corner off entire generic keyword spaces for their own use.

Cloud computing, for example, is something that so many companies are involved with that it would be impossible to enumerate how many are involved. Yet Symantec plans to use .cloud for itself and nobody else.

Or what about Google’s application for .blog which they want to keep solely for the use of Blogger users?

I’ve put together a few key points about the issue here.

If you feel that allowing a few companies to monopolise keywords like this is a bad idea let your voice be heard here.

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Filed Under: amazon, blogging, Domains & DNS, Domains & Hosting, google Tagged With: Cloud computing, Domain name, Generic top-level domain, google, icann, Symantec, Top-level domain

Michele is founder and CEO of Irish hosting provider and domain name registrar Blacknight. Read More…

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  1. kristina Macaulay says

    February 27, 2013 at 1:19 pm

    Thanks for this Michele, using your information, I’ve contacted the Editor of Oxford English Library John Simpson, the Scottish Government (as that’s here we’re abased)and issued out various related notes of awareness to other cloud service provider, app developers and http://www.elsevier.com/. We have until the 7th March 2013 to submit our response to ICANN at: email: comments-closed-generic-05feb13@icann.org

    It’s making it relevant to how it will affect them… Time will tell 😉

  2. kristina Macaulay says

    February 27, 2013 at 1:21 pm

    Thanks for this Michele, using your information, I’ve contacted the Editor of Oxford English Library John Simpson, the Scottish Government (as that’s where we’re abased)and issued out various related notes of awareness to other cloud service provider, app developers and http://www.elsevier.com/. We have until the 7th March 2013 to submit our response to ICANN at: email: comments-closed-generic-05feb13@icann.org

    It’s making it relevant to how it will affect them… Time will tell 😉

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