Consulting firm JAS Advisors was accredited by ICANN to conduct a study on potential risks of the introduction of the new gTLDs. Recently it has presented the final report of the results of their work. These are the risks caused by the name collisions when a new gTLD matches a string that has already been used on internal networks. This problem has been massively discussed in recent years. Due to the fact that such problems could have happened delegation of some new gTLDs, for example, .CORP and .HOME, was vetoed. The issue here was that these names are widely used in many internal networks. Verisign that manages domains .COM and .NET claimed that name collisions could lead to disruption of critical infrastructure networks and pose a threat even to human life.
It seems that these dangers were exaggerated, Domain Incite reports. JAS Advisors says in the report that since the moment first new gTLDs were delegated in October 2013 ICANN has received less than 30 reports of disruptive collisions. In none of the cases the scale of the problem was serious enough to talk about a threat to human life.
