As we discussed, last week the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation held a full committee hearing on ICANN's domain name expansion, perhaps in part to address CRIDO's recent actions to stall the gTLD program. The following summary of the hearing was prepared for the American Bar Association by James L. Bikoff, David Heasley, and Philip Marano of Silverberg, Goldman & Bikoff, LLP, and is reprinted with permission.

As you know, yesterday the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a hearing to "examine the merits and implications of [the new gTLD] program and ICANN's continuing efforts to address concerns raised by the Internet community."