Icann plans to begin its roll-out of new internet address endings in May
More than 250 objections to proposed new internet address endings have been filed by a panel representing about 50 of the world’s governments.
It includes references to groups of people or locations including .roma, .islam, .patagonia, .africa and .zulu.
There are also concerns about proposed suffixes covering broad sectors such as .casino, .charity, .health, .insurance and .search.
The list was submitted ahead of a planned rollout next year.
The panel – known as the Government Advisory Committee (Gac) – has published its “early warning” list on the web to give applicants a chance to address its concerns or choose to withdraw their submission and reclaim 80% of their $ 185,000 (£116,300) application fee.
Gac will then decide in April which of the suffixes warrant formal complaints if it still has outstanding concerns, at a meeting in Beijing.
Each warning on the list makes reference to the country which filed the objection. A suffix was only added to the register if no other members of Gac objected to its inclusion.
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The organisations and suffixes referred to on the list included:
- Amazon for its applications for .app, .book, .movie, .game and .mail among others.
- Google for .search, .cloud and .gmbh (a reference to a type of limited German company).
- Johnson & Johnson for .baby.
- L’Oreal for .beauty, .hair, .makeup, .salon and .skin.
- The Weather Channel for .weather.
- Symantec for .antivirus.
- eHow publisher, Demand Media, for .army, .airforce, .engineer and .green.
Despite the large number of objections, Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) – the internet name regulator in charge of the rollout – has indicated that it still believed it would be able to release the first suffixes for use by May 2013.
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