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Nov01

Retailers beware: Internet domain expansion could cost you more than your brand identity

By Artemis Berry, Senior Director of Content and Community, Shop.org | Published: November 1, 2011
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This January, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will begin accepting applications for new extensions of generic top-level domains (gTLDs). What exactly do all these acronyms have to do with you? Well, probably quite a bit if you’re part of a retail organization that conducts business online. Now is the time to [...]

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Jun08

ICANN hearing

By Josh Greene | Published: June 8, 2009
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Shop.org has actively been monitoring ICANN’s proposal to create unlimited gTLDs.  We, along with NRF, have joined the Coalition for Online Trademark Protection and are working hard to raise the awareness of key policy makers in Washington. The Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet held a hearing titled, “Oversight of the Internet Corporation for [...]

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