RE: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

And no, companies *aren't* "forced to pay for another domain name" just because a new TLD appears -- they aren't doing it *now*, by and large, and thank ghod:

The last time I looked there were a few thousand companies protecting their intellectual property by using companies like Mark Monitor to insure that they had defensive registrations in all ccTLD's possible. -M<