Your questions answered: Icann chief Rod Beckstrom.

(From Guardian Unlimited)

On Wednesday we asked if you had any questions for Rod Beckstrom, the freshly-minted chief executive of internet bigwigs Icann - and one of the architects of the deal announced this week that saw Washington cede control of the organisation .

Though I wasn't sure whether we'd have time to run through your questions, I did get to ask him queries posed by three readers. Here's what he said:

(a quick note: I paraphrased the questions)

Nippon8: Is there a danger that the expansion of domain names (gTLDs) and the move to include international characters in domain names (IDNs) are two issues that are being conflated? Shouldn't …