"Disclosure of interests" [2019] ELECD 568; in Mahler, Tobias (ed), "Generic Top-Level Domains" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) xvii

Book Title: Generic Top-Level Domains

Editor(s): Mahler, Tobias

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Section Title: Disclosure of interests

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Disclosure of interests
This book only contains the views of the author and not those of its
funding organizations. This is especially important to emphasize in a
book resulting from research projects partly financed by one actor in
the domain name industry (the Norwegian country-code TLD operator
UNINETT Norid AS). The author has not received any content-related
instructions from the funding organizations. Nevertheless, the risk of bias
due to economic incentives is acknowledged. I have attempted to manage
this risk primarily by limiting the scope of the book to gTLD issues, to
the exclusion of ccTLDs. However, this is only a partial solution because
gTLDs can be perceived to compete partly with ccTLDs. Therefore, the
book also contains more limited discussions of regulatory issues that affect
ccTLD competition with gTLDs, such as in the context of geographic
gTLDs ­ for example, those including country names.




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