One of the companies that has applied to manage the dot charity domain has insisted that it will “maintain an aggressive stance toward improper use” of the name.

Donuts (aka Corn Lake) was responding to the Australian member of the governmental advisory committee (GAC) for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), which had issued the company with early warning notices for 31 of its applications to manage generic top-level domain (gTLD) names.

The warning issued by the Australian member of the GAC for the charity web address suffix said: “Without additional protections, this proposed top-level domain could result in misuse and consumer harm, and could result in damage to the trust that consumers and governments place in legitimate charities.”

In its response to the 31 early warnings, Donuts states that: “The company will maintain an aggressive stance toward improper use of second-level registrations in its gTLDs.”

But that: “Our preference is to address this type of abuse if it occurs, rather than over-regulate usage and diminish a gTLD’s value and ability to compete even before its availability.”

It adds that it has a number of systems in place to actively monitor users and act on any reports of abuse.

 

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