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ICANN Chief Operating Officer Doug Brent

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New top-level domains will not interfere with established domains such as .com or .uk, says ICANN COO Doug Brent. Credit: Flickr.com

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August 25, 2009

ICANN chief operating officer Doug Brent says that although he believes the generic top-level domain (gTLD) implementation process is on track, the complete adoption of the new domains could take as much as a decade to pan out. At this point most of what ICANN knows about gTLD interest is anecdotal, but the organization estimates that it will receive hundreds of applications to create new gTLDs. 

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