"Contents" [2019] ELECD 565; in Mahler, Tobias (ed), "Generic Top-Level Domains" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) vii

Book Title: Generic Top-Level Domains

Editor(s): Mahler, Tobias

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 7

Extract:

Contents
List of figures xiv
Preface xv
Disclosure of interests xvii
List of abbreviations xviii
Table of cases xx
Table of legislation xxiii

PART I ICANN AND GENERIC TOP-LEVEL DOMAINS

1. Introduction 2
A. Domain names and top-level domains 3
B. The 2012 gTLD application round 3
C. Transnational private regulation 4
D. The book's remit 6
E. Domain name law 7
F. The regulatory perspective in Internet governance 7
G. The book's method and scope 10
H. The book's structure and main arguments 12

2. A global `private' regime governing the Domain Name
System (DNS) 16
A. Domain names 17
B. Selected actors involved in DNS use 19
1. Registry operators 20
2. Registrars 20
3. Registrants and domain investors 21
4. Internet users 21
C. Top-level domains 22
1. Country-code TLDs 23
2. Generic Top-Level Domains 24
3. New gTLDs 26
D. ICANN 29
1. Mission 29
2. Structure 31


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E. Twenty years of privatization 34
1. The US-based creation of ICANN 34
2. Contractual relations between ICANN and the US
Government 35
3. The last step: the 2016 transition from US
Government to the Internet community 37

3. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) on a path toward a constitutional system 40
A. Toward a constitution? 41
B. The ICANN Board 42
C. The empowered community as a control agent 44
D. The legislative branch ­ including the GNSO 45
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