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==American Bankers Association Position on SOPA==
==American Bankers Association Position on SOPA==
The American Bankers Association supports the Stop Online Piracy Act ([[SOPA]]) proposed by Congressman [[Lamar Smith]], Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The organization concur that "U.S intellectual property should be vigorously defended and that rogue websites selling counterfeit or copyright infringing products to U.S. consumers should be shut down." <ref>[http://www.aba.com/NR/rdonlyres/76DCD307-2D7E-48A6-A10F-623175F0AEAD/74582/HJUDLetterreOnlinePiracy121411.pdf ABA Letter on SOPA]</ref>
The American Bankers Association supports the Stop Online Piracy Act ([[SOPA]]) proposed by Congressman [[Lamar Smith]], Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. The organization concur that "U.S intellectual property should be vigorously defended and that rogue websites selling counterfeit or copyright infringing products to U.S. consumers should be shut down." <ref>[http://www.aba.com/NR/rdonlyres/76DCD307-2D7E-48A6-A10F-623175F0AEAD/74582/HJUDLetterreOnlinePiracy121411.pdf ABA Letter on SOPA]</ref>
==.Bank and .Insurance TLD Projects==
The American Bankers Association partnered with BITS, the technology policy arm of the Financial Services Roundtable in applying for the [[.bank]] and [[.insurance ]] top level domain names ([[TLD]]s) with [[ICANN]]'s [[New gTLD Program]] to "provide the highest security for the millions of customers conducting banking and insurance activities online." <ref>
[http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/industry-groups-bid-control-new-bank-and-insurance-tlds-053112 Industry Groups Bid To Control New .Bank And .Insurance TLDs]</ref> Verisign has been chosen as their back-end registry solutions provider. <ref>[http://domainincite.com/archives/4107-verisign-now-front-runner-for-bank VeriSign now front-runner for .bank]</ref> [[Craig Schwartz]], former chief gTLD registry liaison of ICANN was also hired by ABA and BITs to serve as general manager of the .bank registry. <ref>
[http://domainincite.com/archives/4999-senior-icann-staffer-hired-by-bank-project Senior ICANN staffer hired by .bank project]</ref>
The ABA-BITS partnership will be competing with the [[Domain Security Company]] formerly Asif LLC, a start-up company based in Wisconsin to become the registry operator of the .bank string. There are two other possible applicants for the .bank TLD. <ref>
[http://domainincite.com/archives/7375-tiny-start-up-secures-bank-gtld-trademark Tiny start-up secures .bank gTLD trademark]</ref>
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