U.N. agency: Internet Name System in Growing Danger
And the United Nations' agency said the latest trends in registering top-level domain names (TLDs) could undermine dispute procedures under which patent holders can pursue "cybersquatters."
Gurry, who runs the agency's own site-name dispute system, said the growth of computer-driven practices, like automatic mass harvesting of expired TLDs and "domain-name tasting," risks turning the system "into a mostly speculative market."