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TLD Correspondence



Intellectual Property Claims

Over the past several months, participants in the ICANN process have been discussing the establishment of new top-level domains (TLDs). On 16 July 2000, the ICANN Board of Directors adopted a recommendation of the ICANN Domain Name Supporting Organization under which ICANN is receiving proposals to establish various new TLDs. The goal is to make selections from among the applications at the November 2000 ICANN annual meeting, followed by contractual discussions between ICANN and selected applicants. At least some new TLDs could become operational in the first half of the year 2000.

Recently ICANN has received correspondence from various parties asserting that establishment of particular TLDs would infringe their claimed intellectual property rights. To promote the openness and transparency of the selection process, this correspondence and ICANN's responses are posted below.

Correspondence with Shepher Corporation d/b/a biz.com

Correspondence with Economic Solutions, Inc. (.bz)

Correspondence with Alan Ezeir (.ws)

Correspondence with e2p Limited

Background Materials

Some of the responses above refer to these background materials:

Other Correspondence

Correspondence With Standards Bodies About Telephony-Related Applications


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