ICANN's failure to keep bids confidential has dented faith in its ability to manage disputes.
Moreover, ICANN has not indicated when (if ever) a second application round will open.
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He said Icann's problems arose because it was taking on too large a role.
It asked ICANN-accredited registrars to develop and voluntarily adopt a model for resolving such disputes.
Also in Berlin, ICANN reviewed the World Intellectual Property Organization's recent report on domain names.
Planet.eco, hasn't decided yet if it will file an objection with Icann, Mr. William said.
In the meantime, ICANN will set up minimum requirements for new domains to guide potential applicants.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers can be reached at www.icann.org.
Under the new system, ISPs that have been selected by ICANN can process registrations themselves.
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Becky Burr, the U.S. Commerce Department official who oversees ICANN issues, pointed to the international outcry.
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Verisign also announced the execution of the 2012 .com Registry Agreement by both ICANN and Verisign.
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The US Department of Commerce said Icann deserved a chance to prove the changes were working.
Icann was created in 1998 by the US Government to look after the net's addressing system.
Some will be decided in auctions, the last resort of the ICANN process, others possibly in court.
Icann, the obscure group that metes out Internet addresses, has an uncanny ability to stir up controversy.
The reforms also try to make Icann achieve more rather than spend too long chewing over policy.
Icann doesn't have any rules governing how applicants should or shouldn't address competitors seeking the same domains.
Icann may have approved the .museum and .coop domains but few were using those suffixes, she said.
Internet control currently lies largely with US-based groups such as Icann, which regulates the web address system.
At the meeting, ICANN created a group called the Domain Names Supporting Organization, according to an ICANN statement.
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ICANN's approval of the seven new domain names could affect the Web security firm VeriSign (VRSN: Research, Estimates).
The investigation follows more than a year of informal talks and monitoring that began as ICANN was launched.
Icann said it planned to close down its application system until Wednesday and was extending its application deadline.
Icann had previously said it would announce who had applied for which of the gTLDs on 30 April.
Yet ICANN is proving itself incapable of creating a workable alternative, and NSI meanwhile remains firmly in control.
Further information about these companies will be available shortly on ICANN's Web site.
There is already a history of ICANN empowering other organizations to redistribute domains.
"We've got to get the policies out first, " says ICANN Chairwoman Esther Dyson.
Assistant Commerce Secretary Nancy Victory declared that the department was "frankly disappointed" at the slow progress of Icann change.
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