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US puts Icann under pressure

...needed to make the process more "accountable" and "transparent". Larry Strickling, a Commerce Department assistant secretary, said on Monday that the California nonprofit group created... Read more

15 March, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

US proposes veto power over new domain names

...ZDNet UK's sister site CNET News over the weekend from the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration said its proposed veto procedure... Read more

8 February, 2011 by Declan McCullagh

Sun coughs up for export charges

...agreed to pay $291,000 (£166,300) in fines to settle US Commerce Department charges that the server maker violated rules in exporting equipment to... Read more

17 December, 2003 by Stephen Shankland

ICANN still rules the Net

As expected, the US Commerce Department has extended for one more year its contract with the organisation... Read more

23 September, 2002 by Lisa M Bowman

Crypto compromise a lawyers' delight

...the FBI who are unwilling to give up the ghost." The US Commerce Department has long held tight restrictions on the export of strong cryptography... Read more

14 January, 2000 by Kevin Poulsen

Network Solutions agrees to domain deal

Settling a long-running dispute, Network Solutions and the US Commerce Department agreed on a deal that lets the company retain control of... Read more

29 September, 1999 by ZDNet

US voices openness to private Net control

...historic control of the Internet domain name system after all, a US Commerce Department official said on Wednesday. Despite bold statements last year that seemed... Read more

27 July, 2006 by Anne Broache

Tech activists fight for anti-copying debate

Enthusiasts of free software disrupted a Commerce Department meeting on Wednesday, insisting on their right to debate against the... Read more

18 July, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

Head of internet-oversight group to step down

...help with the transition. His announcement comes just months before the US Commerce Department's oversight of Icann expires. The organisation will become completely independent... Read more

3 March, 2009 by Stephanie Condon
Weighing Bush's mixed technology legacy

Weighing Bush's mixed technology legacy

...National Infrastructure Protection Center, the Defense Department's National Communications System, the Commerce Department's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, an Energy Department analysis centre and... Read more

20 January, 2009 by Declan McCullagh
Obama's search for a national CTO

Obama's search for a national CTO

...need to figure out what exactly that means," he said. "Giving the Commerce Department more money will not do anything for innovation, yet that's... Read more

7 November, 2008 by Stephanie Condon

China denies hacking US politicians' computers

...information from the laptop was allegedly used to try to break into Commerce Department computers. Chinese hackers are also believed to have been behind several... Read more

13 June, 2008 by Elinor Mills

UN proposes net governance changes

...reversing itself and rejecting the domain suffix. Recent changes (PDF) to the Commerce Department-ICANN relationship haven't been enough to quiet anti-US rumblings... Read more

31 October, 2006 by Declan McCullagh

UN summit reopens debate over control of the net

...Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, that the US Commerce Department announced a few weeks ago sufficient to allay international concerns? (PDF... Read more

27 October, 2006 by Declan McCullagh

US Government renews domain-name contract

...with a set of Internet governance principles issued last summer by the Commerce Department that ignited a worldwide debate. In addition to asserting its plans... Read more

17 August, 2006 by Anne Broache

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