ICANN: data breaches not due to new top-level domains

An ICANN spokesman dismissed accusations that the recent growth in the number of generic top-level domains has caused data breaches, on Thursday.

There are now more than 700 top-level domains such as .meme, .guru and .blog. The number of TLDs has exploded only recently — between 1985 and 2012, the number of TLDs grew slowly, from five to 22. And ICAAN — the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — plans to allow more such domains in the future.

According to critics, the recent growth has been a windfall for cyber criminals, a charge that the ICANN has disputed.

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