Another Icann Oops in Plan to Roll Out New Internet Domains

Mistake fixed quickly, but what effect on rep?

Icann, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is quickly earning the nickname "I can't."

The organization that manages the address system on the Internet was forced to temporarily take offline last night the public roster of 1,930 applicants for new top-level domain names until it could remove the applicants' personal contact information (including home addresses).

Though Icann fixed this latest mistake quickly, it's just one more snafu dogging its controversial plan to introduce thousands of new top-level domain names to the Internet.

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