International organisations like the United Nations and the IMF have the Icann asked to guarantee against hijackers, for example .un – and .imf-tlds. Icann makes a massive expansion of the number of domain name extensions as possible.
The Icann wants to make it possible for companies and organisations to domain name extensions to obtain, for example, brand names, but several organizations have through a letter their concern about this development. The letter, which Reuters got hold of, would be signed by the various intergovernmental organisations such as the IMF and the UN.
Lawyers of the organizations write in the letter that the concerns are related to the increased chance of misleading registration and use of names and acronyms of intergovernmental organizations in the domain name system by the expansion plans of Icann. The letter would this week have been sent out.
The organizations and companies 185.000 dollar costs to a top-level domain for a brand name to ask for. They are for the choice to be a considerable amount of money to pay or to take the risk on domain hijacking, where they then have to act.