   Friday, 15 March 2013  gTLDs and anticompetitive behaviour:
is there a monopolistic trend on the web?  Remember when the
dash for dots was all to do with the Morse code ...? So much has
been written about the new world of generic top level domains
that it will hardly hurt to add a few more words on this weblog.
Rather than do the usual business of telling readers what they
have already read about and then giving half a dozen links to
webpages they've already favourited or never want to visit, this
Kat felt it might be better to offer a short, personal
observation. Not so short but definitely personal, Katfriend
Miri Frankel (Aegis Media Americas) has thus kindly provided an
insight of her very own: gTLDs: I Can … or I Can’t  When the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
announced, as early as 2007 or 2008, plans to create a system
for the registration of generic top level domain names (gTLDs),
say .food or .movie, concern abounded.  Chief among the issues
were concerns from brand own