This year, moreover, there is an extra ingredient to consider: windfall payments from the conversion to public limited companies of big building societies and Norwich Union, a big insurer.

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Initially, for a period of four months, registration will be limited to public companies and trademark owners to avoid the risk of cybersquatters taking names which are not legally theirs.

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The problems aren't limited to public companies.

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In recent years, the high costs of regulatory compliance associated with Sarbanes-Oxley and the effects of Dodd-Frank combined with a waning initial public offering (IPO) market and increasing global competition have limited the ability of smaller companies to access new capital through the public markets.

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"I do not believe (his ideas) would work in large companies, such as in a public limited company for example, " says Ian Angell, Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics.

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