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US web stranglehold challenged
News A top UN official has called for changes to the way the internet is operated, taking aim at the US stranglehold on domain names and internet addresses. Speaking at the opening of a four-day UN summit in Athens Yoshio Utsumi criticised the current... [30 Oct 2006]
Bush agrees web control pact with UN
News China, Cuba, South Africa and other nations have argued the US and other wealthier nations must share power - complaints that will now be taken to the new UN forum. The European Union, for instance, implicitly backed the creation of a stronger UN... [16 Nov 2005]
'Tunisia not fit to host world web summit'
News Most recently, a large coalition of international human rights groups was forbidden by Tunisian authorities from meeting to discuss the UN summit's topics on their own, the organisation Human Rights Watch reported on Monday. [15 Nov 2005]
Protect the net from UN menace, says US senator
News Suggestions that have been made include new mandates for "consumer protection", the power to levy taxes on domain names to pay for "universal access", and folding Icann into the International Telecommunications Union, a UN agency. [19 Oct 2005]
US moves to keep control of net names
News Officials on both sides are set to meet about the issue next month at a UN-sponsored summit in Tunisia. In a letter to Commerce and State Department officials, the lawmakers said the Bush administration should retain strong oversight over the... [10 Oct 2005]
US can't dominate domain names, says UN
News But the UN group couldn't decide what should be done about it. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has long pressed industry, government and private interest groups to ensure that people in poor nations have greater access to the internet. [18 Jul 2005]
Who's deciding the future of the internet?
News The UN recently announced that its members had agreed that the internet was a global 'facility' whose management should be 'multilateral, transparent and democratic'. To this end, the UN has set up the Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) to... [27 Sep 2004]
VeriSign suit not about 'control of the internet' says ICANN chief
News On another front ICANN had to fight off calls from some countries last year at the World Information Summit for an inter-government agency such as the UN to run the internet instead of ICANN. Some of the people calling for the UN to run the... [08 Mar 2004]
World Summit on the Information Society kicks off
News The summit brings together governments, businesses, the UN and the man in the street and aims to hammer out a general agreement on ICT strategy and then put a plan of action in place. The anti-Icann countries would prefer to see the internet in the... [10 Dec 2003]
WIPO plans to wipe out cybersquatters
News The UN's World Intellectual Property Organisation has called for a tightening of the rules to prevent cybersquatting. A WIPO report published yesterday has proposed that top-level internet domain names (TLDs) containing the names of countries... [04 Sep 2001]
German net industry wants right to settle its own disputes
News UN body WIPO believes arbitration schemes, which have already proven successful in other European countries, such as the UK, are becoming necessary as more top level domain name owners clash across national boundaries. [06 Mar 2001]
WIPO cracks down on cybersquatters
News The WIPO is a UN organisation which acts as an international Internet watchdog. The organisation responsible for the management of global domain names, Icann, received the report first. Cybersquatting is the practice of speculatively buying popular... [04 May 1999]
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