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ICANN apologises for TLD privacy gaffe

posted onJune 18, 2012
by l33tdawg

Global domain name regulator ICANN has apologised for inadvertently publishing full contact information of those who applied for a generic top-level (gTLD) domain earlier this week.

ICANN publicly revealed the list of nearly 2000 proposed top-level domains and the names of the applicants as part of a splashy event on Wednesday in London.

It published the applications on its website, but forgot to redact personal contact data, even though it had promised to do so in the applicant guidebook. Details such as home addresses for the application's primary and secondary contacts were accidentally exposed. ICANN voted to expand gTLDs to allow custom domain suffixes and began accepting applications earlier this year.

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