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Internet Group Says Quality Over Speed in Restoring Domain-Name Expansion
Credit: ICANN
A system used by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to allow companies and organizations to propose new generic top-level domain (gTLD) names remains shut down indefinitely, three weeks after the discovery of a software glitch that resulted in some private data being exposed.
ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom says that although his organization has determined what caused the problem and has a way to fix it, the corrective measures still need to undergo extensive testing before they can be implemented. In addition, the companies and organizations whose data has been exposed need to be informed, Beckstrom notes. He refuses to say when the system will be operational again. However, Beckstrom says the delay, which will also give applicants time to ensure that their data was not lost or corrupted, is not expected to have a significant impact on the availability of the new gTLDs.
Meanwhile, ICANN announced that 2,091 suffix proposals were either fully completed or in process, and there are another 214 for which it was still awaiting or processing application fees. ICANN says the applications will be divided into at least four batches of about 500 each, which could extend the review process over several years. ICANN notes the gTLD process has generated $350 million in application fees so far.
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