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"Concluding remarks" [2019] ELECD 584; in Mahler, Tobias (ed), "Generic Top-Level Domains" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) 258

Book Title: Generic Top-Level Domains

Editor(s): Mahler, Tobias

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section: Chapter 13

Section Title: Concluding remarks

Number of pages: 2

Abstract/Description:

This is the beginning, rather than the end. The addition of new generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) to the Internet Domain Name System (DNS) has significantly increased the number of existing TLDs available to registrants. Although there is no prospect that new gTLDs will significantly affect the dominance of <.com>, they provide an additional supply of available names for registrants. These new names will remain with the Internet for as long as domain names are relevant. In this sense, the programme has changed the DNS. The programme has also contributed significantly to changes in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and it has led to the creation of a rather extensive framework of transnational private regulation, which is applied in a quasi-judicial system. In my view, it would be useful to develop ICANN’s many dispute-resolution policies and independent review into a more elaborate arbitration system that can fulfil the need for a quasi-judicial system, to support the fair and consistent adjudication of cases under ICANN’s transnational private regulation.