ICANN and the New Top-Level Domains Event 2/25/2019

[Remmy Nweke]

Weldone Kathy

On Fri, 15 Feb 2019, 10:57 p.m. Kathy Kleiman <kathy at dnrc.tech wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> On Monday, 2/25/2019, American University Washington College of Law is
> going to hold a great discussion on new gTLDs.  I've included the agenda
> below.  Michael Karanicolas and I are both on panels for this event.
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> If you are in the Washington DC area, please come and join us!
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> Registration (free): https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/events/icann-and-the-new-top-level-domains/
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> Best, Kathy
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> *ICANN and the New Top-Level Domains*
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> American University Washington College of Law, Room NT01
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> Monday, February 25, 2019
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> 1:30-5:30pm
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> *We are in the midst of an historic expansion of internet domain names
> with more than 1200 new generic top-level domains (“gTLDs”) now competing
> with <.com>. This 5000% increase in gTLDs is the biggest change to the
> internet's domain naming system in thirty years (and more are coming
> soon!). Accompanying these new gTLDs, are new and innovative--but little
> known--IP rights protection mechanisms. These developments could have a
> profound impact on the rights of IP owners, domain name registrants, and
> the public, and on the architecture of the internet.*
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> 1:30 Welcome, Christine Haight Farley, American University Washington
> College of Law
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> 1:40 *Trademark Protections in the New gTLDs*
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> Michael Karanicolas, University of Toronto
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> Brian King, MarkMonitor
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> Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School
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> Brian Winterfeldt, Winterfeldt IP Group (invited)
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> Mary Wong, ICANN (invited)
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> 3:00 Break
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> 3:15 *“Walled Gardens:” Should gTLDs Become Private Platforms?*
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> Becky Burr, ICANN Board & Neustar
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> Sarah Deutsch, ICANN Board
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> Kathy Kleiman, Center for Information Technology, Princeton University
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> Jeff Neuman, Com Laude/Valideus
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> Mitch Stoltz, EFF
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> 4:30 Closing, Patricia Aufderheide, American University, School of
> Communication
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> 4:35-5:30 Reception
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> Sponsored by American University Washington College of Law, American
> University School of Communications, Program on Information Justice and
> Intellectual Property, and Internet Governance Lab
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