The announcement of the liberalization of generic extensions on the Internet, even before the official decision of 26 June 2008, requires further explanation. After declaring on June 23 in Les Echos: “from the first quarter of 2009, 1.3 billion Internet addresses can acquire generic,” Paul Twomey, CEO of ICANN, organization and supervision of Net names domain, qualified his remarks the next day. In an interview with mail club. info, Twomey said: “the basic mechanism design of a new extension includes the payment of application fees, plus administrative costs of managing (…) can be expected a 6-digit number in U.S. dollars. ” - In other words, the entrance ticket for an application will be prohibitive for many users. In addition, Twomey said that “candidates must then pass a test by submitting their business plan and their program and their technical capacity to manage a new register will also be evaluated.” In short, liberalization priority target businesses and the public sector, the City of Paris, for example. Finally, the board of ICANN gave Thursday, his “green light in principle” the liberalization of generic domain names and said “a final plan for implementing the project must be approved by the board of ICANN before launching the new process. This version should be published early 2009 “. NetEco.com interviewed on this topic Loïc Danielsville, Deputy Director-General of AFNIC (French Association for naming internet in cooperation), one of the organizations invited to the international meeting of ICANN, last week in Paris. Loïc Danielsville said: “Details on the modalities of implementation of the project will be specified later … the process is lengthy and complex “. Before adding: “I continue to wonder about the reasons that led Paul Tommy has to make an announcement as breaking on June 23. It is not the only one to wonder: How much will pay a company to protect its brands? The protection of names of countries and institutions be ensured? The process will be largely benefit the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)? The organization, founded in 1998 at the initiative of the U.S. Department of Commerce, receives a sum on each domain sold nearly 162 million websites registered with one of 21 areas available so far, including 72 M in ‘. com’, 12 M ‘.’ and 1.1 M ‘. com.
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