January 2012 marked the start of the controversial ICANN program aimed at opening up the internet's top-level domain naming system. There are numerous applicants.

Listen as John McKeown, a Partner in the Cassels Brock Brand Management Group, with James Davis of Arent Fox in Washington, D.C., deliver this informative Podcast, sponsored by LexisNexis, focusing on the expansion of the new Top-Level Domains (gTLD), including the background and timeline of the program, recent developments, the potential impact of the program. John also discusses the process for dispute resolution and grounds for objection during the evaluation process.

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