A report (http://bit.ly/1cZVZyI) on the potential for name collisions of...
A report (http://bit.ly/1cZVZyI) on the potential for name collisions of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in the business community was released by the Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) Wednesday. The document is in response to ICANN’s rollout of new gTLDs and…
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the “outside perspective” of ICANN’s study of name collisions, said the report. “We find that domain collisions continue to raise concerns and could have broad implications for online networks spanning the globe,” said ACT President Jonathan Zuck in a statement Thursday. “Particularly worrisome” is the possibility for collisions of “intranets designed around strings,” like the new gTLD “.office,” that will be part of the public domain name system, said Zuck. There is “considerable likelihood” that some of the 1,400 new gTLDs will collide with existing top-level domains, in which case “chaos will ensue,” said the report. It called on ICANN to raise awareness around name collisions and linked to the organization’s “Command Center” on the issue (http://bit.ly/1irqp51). For businesses affected by potential name collisions, the report gave instructions, such as creating a “dependency map” to determine how software systems could change in the event of name change, said the report.