FTC Commissioner Julie Brill said she’s concerned about the rollout of...
FTC Commissioner Julie Brill said she’s concerned about the rollout of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) by ICANN, which is scheduled to start next month, according to her prepared remarks to an Association of National Advertisers conference (http://1.usa.gov/WEvbjI). “I remain concerned,…
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as I have been since ICANN first announced its plans, that the expansion could create opportunities for scammers to defraud consumers online, shrink law enforcement’s ability to catch scam artists, and divert the resources of legitimate businesses into litigating and protecting their own good names,” she said. Consumers may be misled by similar gTLDs, she continued. “What if there is a ‘dot obstetrician’ and a ‘dot obstetricians’ ... one limited to licensed doctors, the other not? How does [a consumer] know which one to trust?” Brill said the agency is “very supportive of ICANN’s efforts to make domain name registrars -- the entities that sell website names to other businesses and individuals -- more accountable."