ICANN Consumer gTLD Review Group Plans to Issue Draft Recommendations by Year's End
ICANN’s Competition, Consumer Trust & Consumer Choice Review Team (CCT-RT) is aiming to issue a draft report by the end of 2016 on its ongoing review of consumers’ opinions on the new generic top-level domains (gTLD) program, said ACT |…
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The App Association President Jonathan Zuck, a member of the review group, in a blog post. CCT-RT decided during a meeting last month in Vienna “there is a need to help applicants understand underlying business models” of the new gTLD program, he said Friday. The review team reached that conclusion after reviewing initial survey results, Zuck said. An Analysis Group initial report said registrations of new gTLDs account for 50 percent of overall growth in the gTLD space and that average and median registration process have continued to decline. A Nielsen initial report said the new gTLD program hasn’t eroded consumer trust and consumers are interested in seeing the Domain Name System evolve to make it easier to find businesses by category. Nielsen said about half of surveyed consumers and registrants believe use of new gTLDs that may have an implied meaning should be restricted to certain entities, such as only banks using .bank domain names. CCT-RT plans to seek community input on interim recommendations during ICANN’s Nov. 3-9 meeting in Hyderabad, India, Zuck said.