The decision to allow custom top-level domains will be a "nightmare" for brand managers, analysts and lawyers have warned.
The US-sanctioned Internet domain name management body is still struggling to bring the world's top-level domains under its fold.
Australia is lagging behind the rest of the world in the rush to register with the new global top level domain (gTLD) .info.
Network operators, anti-spam campaigners, security experts and engineers have all hit out at VeriSign over changes it made to the top level domain system on Monday.
The new Internet top level domains came a step closer to reality today when the ICANN board authorised the president and general counsel to complete the negotiation of the remaining appendices to the agreements for the unsponsored top level domains .name, .pro, .biz and .info.
ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf fires back at critics who say his organisation impedes innovation on the Internet.
The domain name system--the global directory that maps names to Internet protocol addresses--was designed to distribute authority, making organisations literally "masters of their own domain".
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