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ICANN Steamrolls Forward with New Generic TLD Program and .xxx TLD

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") continues to steamroll forward on two important issues during and after its 40th meeting in San Francisco on March 13-18, 2011.

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") continues to steamroll forward on two important issues during and after its 40th meeting in San Francisco on March 13-18, 2011. The meeting's two key events resulted from pressure from the Government Advisory Council ("GAC"), which represents more than one hundred national governments and supranational organizations. First, ICANN decided to continue the headlong push to launch a program that will dramatically expand the number of generic top-level domains ("TLDs") by June 30, 2011. It addressed a small number of the GAC's many objections and agreed to work to further address the rest on an accelerated timeline. Second, ICANN approved .xxx as a new industry-specific TLD over the GAC's objections. The .xxx application is a controversial leftover from a test run of sponsored TLD applications that started in 2000.

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