Esther Dyson, the founding chair of ICANN, has voiced her disapproval of new generic Top Level Domains, telling TechCrunch.TV she does not think new gTLDs will “add to the sum of human happiness.” Dyson opposes the new gTLDs for a number of reasons. She says we are not running out of domain names “but we are running out of space in people’s heads” and that while it is not a way for ICANN to make money, it is a “way for registries and registrars to make money.” Originally Dyson said that she thought it would be a good idea to have extra TLDs such as .FIN for financial services but now she says you do not need that, you just need a good brand name. In the interview Dyson says “there are huge trademark issues” and that “it is offensive. If I own a trademark now I have to go register it in 2800 different domains” and it will create lots of litigation. Dyson says that it will cost $185,000, but in reality it will cost a lot more to operate the registry behind the gTLD as well as the annual ICANN fee of $25,000. To see the Esther Dyson interview in full, go to techcrunch.com/2011/07/21/esther-dyson-top-level-domains/

Chris Disspain, an ICANN board member, as well CEO of the .au domain administrator auDA, talks about new gTLDs with Phil Dobbie in this episode of BTalk. Or go to www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uNbSsInqtk for the interview.

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Since the recent purchase of sex.com for a record price of $13 million to a Caribbean company based in the offshore tax haven of St Vincent and Grenadines by a company called Clover Holdings, the owner has been secretive. But TechCrunch has tracked down the owner for an interview of the plans for the domain

“In an in-house interview carried out on the last day of its recent conference in Cartagena, ICANN’s chairman and CEO have answered questions over the Board’s decisions on the new gTLD program and the application for a dot-xxx Internet extension,” wites Kieren McCarthy on the Global Internet Business Coalition blog. “Unusually for an in-house video, the interviewer (ICANN’s media director) asks direct questions and so elicits some useful, unprepared responses. You can view the full video in the top-right of this webpage.” Issues covered in the interview, include the new gTLD process, trademark issues, US government anger with ICANN and ICANN and its relationship with governments.

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