The US government has been gradually reducing its influence over the internet ever since it offloaded domain management responsibilities to ICANN back in the late 1990s, and today it took an important (if mostly symbolic) step toward severing those …
The Commerce Department maintains the master database for such top-level domain names as .com and .net, as well as the corresponding numeric addresses, but has contracted out that work to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Lawrence Strickling said he asked ICANN to convene a process for a formal […]
WASHINGTON – The US government announced Friday it was giving up its key role in charge of the Internet’s technical operations, handing over those functions to “the global multistakeholder community.” The US Commerce Department said it would seek “to convene global stakeholders to develop a proposal” for a transition away from US government oversight of […]
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