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News A United Nations working group has published a long-awaited report that effectively challenges US supremacy over internet domain names. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has long pressed industry, government and private interest groups to ensure that...
[18 Jul 2005]
News A new resolution introduced in the US Senate offers political backing to the Bush administration by slamming a United Nations effort to exert more influence over the internet. But he ventured even further by warning that if governance functions...
[19 Oct 2005]
News The European Union and other nations demanded the US share responsibility for the DNS, including decisions over adding and deleting new top-level domains, with the United Nations. China has announced it is creating a new set of domain names based...
[02 Mar 2006]
News Less than two weeks before a United Nations summit on the internet begins, technology firms including Google, IBM and Microsoft are supporting the Bush administration's efforts to maintain the United States' influence over domain names.
[04 Nov 2005]
News Speaking at the opening of a four-day UN summit in Athens Yoshio Utsumi criticised the current rules for overseeing domain names and internet addresses, stressing that poorer nations are dissatisfied and are hoping that this week's meeting will...
[30 Oct 2006]
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 Bush administration and its critics at a United Nations summit in Tunis...
[16 Nov 2005]
News Discussions about setting up an international fund, pushed for by some African nations, to allow the purchase of ICT equipment, didn't go down well among the richer nations, who said they didn't think another separate fund would achieve anything.
[10 Dec 2003]
News Just days before the United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society begins in Tunis, Tunisia, watchdog groups are reporting clashes with authorities and violence toward at least one journalist in the North African city of about...
[15 Nov 2005]
Comment Attrition.org's staff were "intrigued by the fact that this was not a mass defacement of a series of government websites with an agency or even within a country, but three different nations in different time zones all for a period longer than 15...
[26 Jan 2001]
News The websites including azzam.com, azzam.co.uk, qoqaz.net, and qoqaz.co.uk, tout the virtues of jihad, primarily against the West and allied nations. The name "Azzam" - which appears in the websites' domain names - apparently refers to Abdullah...
[21 Jul 2006]
News Thursday's announcement also represents an effective snub to a United Nations process that is set to culminate in a summit in Tunisia in November. One gripe of the summit participants has been that poorer nations should have more say in the way the...
[01 Jul 2005]
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