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US can't dominate domain names, says UN

News 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. But the UN group couldn't decide what should be done about it.

Tags: united nations, domain names, icann

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[18 Jul 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.

Tags: icann

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[19 Oct 2005]

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...

Tags: icann, un

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[30 Oct 2006]

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...

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[08 Mar 2004]

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. A roster of tech companies, including Google, IBM and Microsoft, and members of the...

Tags: control of the net, control, un

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[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.

Tags: control of the net, un

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[15 Nov 2005]

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...

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[10 Dec 2003]