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ANA to ICANN: Your industry consensus claim is a lie

Group cites widespread opposition as proof of lack of consensus.

I’m going to rip off the title of this post from a video released yesterday by Association of National Advertisers (ANA). (embedded below)

In the video, ANA says ICANN’s claims that the new TLD program was the result of many years of consensus building is “absolutely false”.

Its proof? 103 organizations have “signed on” with ANA to oppose new TLDs.

Now, it’s true that there are a lot of people out there who oppose new TLDs. I know ICANN would agree with that.

But that doesn’t necessarily mean ICANN didn’t go through its consensus process. It did. Maybe the argument is that the process was flawed.

As I’ve argued before, ANA is not the group to lead this charge. It was aware of the new TLD program and waited until it was finalized before making the program its cause célèbre.

Lots of other organizations can legitimately say they had no idea about new TLDs until the program was approved this summer. ANA can’t.

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