Advertisers Seek Answers to Glitch for New Internet Name System

Icann system has been offline since April 12

The organization responsible for managing the address system on the Internet has run into a glitch, confirming advertisers' worst fears—that adding hundreds of new top-level domains to the Internet too quickly is foolhardy.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers was forced April 12 to pull offline its system for accepting applications from companies for new TLDs (dot-apple, dot-coke, dot-bank) after the system leaked to some applicants the file names and user names of other applicants.

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