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Join ICANN for a Discussion on the Next Big .thing New Top-Level Domains and the Expanding Global Internet

9 January 2012

About This Event

On January 12th, ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, will open a process that could trigger a dramatic expansion of the Internet and launch a new era of online innovation.

We are familiar with .com, .org, .net, among the roughly two dozen generic top-level domains currently occupying the Internet's addressing system. Hundreds, possibly thousands of new gTLDs, could be moving in within a year.

The program is not without risks and not for everyone. Understanding the marketing opportunities, the application process, and the program's built-in trademark protections is important even if a new gTLD is not for you.

Join ICANN for an informational panel discussion that will focus on:

  • The post-application launch timeline and process
  • Potential marketing opportunities
  • Trademark Protections & Dispute Resolution

The panelist also will take questions from the audience.

Panel Discussion Details

Moderator: Naseem Javed, ABC Namebank

Panelists:

  • Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO, ICANN
  • Roland LaPlante, Senior VP and CMO, Afilias
  • Kristina Rosette, Special Counsel, Covington & Burling

Event Details

Date: Wednesday, Jan. 11

Time: 9 am – 10:30am

Place: Newseum
Knight Conference Center, Rms 705/706
555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20001


RSVP: andrew.robertson@edelman.com

Phone Number: 888/NEWSEUM (888/639-7386)

Directions:  http://www.newseum.org/plan-your-visit/directions/index.html

About ICANN

To reach another person on the Internet, you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination, we wouldn't have one global Internet.

ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet's unique identifiers.

ICANN doesn't control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn't deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet's naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet.