ICANN to prohibit nonexistent-domain redirect for new TLDs

November 30th, 2009

Earlier this week, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) published a draft of an “explanatory memorandum” for a proposed clause that prohibits the managers of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) as well as IDN country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) from redirecting users when they try to access a nonexistent domain name. In 2003, Verisign, the operator of the .com and .net gTLDs, ran such a system under the name Site Finder …

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