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CONTRIBUTED BYMegan Muirmegan.muir@dlapiper.com  Gina Durham, an intellectual property partner with DLA Piper's Chicago office, explains the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) program underway by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Over the past several months, ICANN has been accepting applications for the new gTLD program.    This program allows organizations to own their own top-level domain extension and aims to greatly proliferate the number of available domain extensions beyond the limited number of extensions, such as “.com” and “.org,” to which Internet users are accustomed. With a few exceptions, an organization could have applied to have almost anything to the... More