In closing ICANN's 37th International meetinf in Nairobi,ICANN's Board of Directors adopted a pioneering package inclding an extensive database of trademarks for their protections on the Internet.
"In forming this trademark clearinghouse,we've listened to our community about providing trademark protection",said Peter Dengate Thrush,ICANN's Chairman of the Board."We've also adopted an extremely rapid process by which people or organizations can challenge trademark infringement."
In other actions,the Board rejected a proposal to implement a system of "Expressions of Interest" (EOI),which would have been a pre-registration process for those wishing to apply for new generic top-level domains .
The expansion of generic top-level domains,has been a subject of considerable discussion and planning within ICANN's Internet community .gTLDs are the end portion of an Internet address name,such as ".com" or ".org" and are not associated with any specific country.Under ICANN's new procedures,the number of these gTLDs will eventually be expanded from its current list of 21 to include almost any word,in almost any language.
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