If Internet users understand only one thing about the new domain-name program, it should be this: It will create space on the Internet that is more secure than what exists today.

A broad cross-section of technical, legal and business experts have spent more than six years planning how to protect Internet users. Operators of these new “generic top-level domains” must complete the most rigorous application process the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has ever required.

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