domain names us government icann summit

US bids to hold on to net

News It's designed in part to provide other nations with a forum to debate alternatives to the current form of internet governance, which is heavily influenced by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)--a California nonprofit... [04 Nov 2005]

Protect the net from UN menace, says US senator

News If ratified, Coleman's resolution would assure the Bush administration and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) of political support on Capitol Hill during the negotiations at the World Summit on the Information Society. [19 Oct 2005]

Consensus finally reached over Internet authority

News Network Solutions (NSI) and the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Iana), yesterday published by-laws for an organisation called the Internet Cooperation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). But Icann, based in Los Angeles, makes public... [18 Sep 1998]

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. In an interview with silicon.com, Paul Twomey, president... [08 Mar 2004]

Bush agrees web control pact with UN

News In addition, the internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann), the not-for-profit organisation created by the Clinton administration to oversee day-to-day management is located in Marina del Rey, California. [16 Nov 2005]

World Summit on the Information Society kicks off

News Some countries, including open source fan Brazil and tech tiger China, would like to see governing body Icann, which currently regulates areas such as domain names distribution and IP addresses, is heavily US-dominated. [10 Dec 2003]

Icann funding plan angers national registrars

News But reports from BBC Online say registrars will use next week's Icann summit in Japan to blow the scheme apart. The registrars behind country code domain names such as dot-uk and dot-fr are up in arms over a large bill from the Internet Corporation... [04 Jul 2000]

US keeps keys to internet domain names

News At the moment, the US government maintains control of the internet's "root" - the master file that lists which top-level domains are authorised - but has indicated in the past that it would transfer that responsibility to the Internet Corporation... [01 Jul 2005]

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