ICANN, the international organization that administrates domain names (.com, .org, .biz, and, yes, .aero and .museum) is considering how it will go about evaluating and granting requests for new "global top-level domains" (as an example, among those being considered are .nyc, .paris, and .berlin). Right now, WebWatch is evaluating ICANN's policy documents in order to make comments and recommendations on behalf of consumers in time for an international ICANN meeting in Los Angeles in two weeks.

We need your help! Tell us what you think about the idea of opening up the Web to potentially hundreds of new domains. Here's some documents to review (we'll spare you the 120-page report itself):

Recent public comments submitted by the community on the Introduction of new Top Level Domains.

The summary of the report on the Introduction of new Top Level Domains.

Please post your comments here, or send them by e-mail to: consumerwebwatch@cu.consumer.org.