GENEVA: The mass expansion of Internet domain names could cause havoc for the defence of trademarks in cyberspace, the UN’s intellectual property body warned on Monday.

“We have this extraordinary expansion that is going on,” said Francis Gurry, head of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which oversees global rules against cybersquatting.

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