How The New TLDs Will Be Given Out
from the painfully dept
Details are starting to come out about how the various new registrars of the new top level domains plan on handing out the new domains in a way that avoid trademark disputes and cybersquatting. The simplest way to explain their plans is that they are trying to make the entire process as annoying and as difficult as possible, so that the only people who would actually go through with it must have a legitimate claim on the domain.
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