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<p>Intellectual Property Watch</p>
<p>By Monika Ermert for <em>Intellectual Property Watch</em></p>
<p>The US National Telecommunications and Information Administration
(NTIA) has announced its support for additional policies for new
generic top-level domains on the internet, with conditions. The
Commerce Department agency will stick to the 12 January start of
the application period for new domains, but it has requested that
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
take additional precautions when opening up the process. </p>
<p>In a <a
href="http://www.ntia.doc.gov/files/ntia/publications/ntia_letter_on_gtld_program_jan_3_2012.pdf">3
January letter</a> [pdf], the NTIA requested ICANN “to minimize
the perceived need for defensive registration” by industry and to
undertake better education about the programme before 12 January.
It also demanded that ICANN promptly implement its commitments for
law enforcement and consumer protection. </p>
<p>Trademark owners represented in several associations like the <a
href="http://www.ana.net/content/show/id/crido">Coalition for
Responsible Internet Domain Oversight</a> (CRIDO) and the
Coalition against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) have hammered home
their concerns in several congressional hearings and a meeting
with the NTIA over the past four weeks. The latest <a
href="http://www.cadna.org/en/newsroom/press-release/kickoff-and-letter-to-icann">CADNA
letter is here</a>. </p>
<p>NTIA, which has been supportive of the six-year ICANN process to
define the applicant guidebook, now announced that it will consult
with stakeholders and governments on additional protections for
second-level domain names once the first list of applicants
becomes available. ICANN should at that point also consider how to
“phase in” the process, NTIA said, in answer to some trademark
owners’ and politicians’ calls to slow down the new domain
process.</p>
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