Late last night, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization responsible for governing the global domain name system, released draft policy documents that would bring about landmark changes to the current Internet naming system that will have significant impact on business entities globally. Currently, there are only 21 active generic top-level domain (gTLD) extensions (examples are .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz) and 249 country-code top level domain (ccTLD) extensions (examples are .ca, .fr, .de, .us, .uk) available for registration. However, under ICANN’s new gtld expansion initiative, hundreds of new gTLDs could be introduced over the next two years, including brand specific domain extensions like .csc , industry-related domain extensions like .sports and geographically-related domain extensions like .berlin.

A 45-day public comment period on the draft policy documents will commence today, October 24, 2008, and end on December 8, 2008. Significant discussion regarding the draft policies and their impact on the global business community will occur at the upcoming 33rd ICANN Meeting in Cairo, Egypt from November 2nd -7th. As the trusted partner of more than 50% of the 100 Best Global Brands*, including 3 of the top 4, for domain name registration and management, CSC regularly attends ICANN meetings and will have a representative participating in the upcoming meeting.

For more information about how CSC can help your company secure, promote and protects its brands amidst this landmark change, please call 1-800-927-9800 from North America and +44 (0)20 7565 4090 from Europe.

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November 6, 2008

Live from Cairo! New gTLDs and Other Updates from the ICANN Meeting.

Just Released – ICANN New gtld Policy Documents.