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The Future US Role In Internet Governance: 7 Points In Response To The US Commerce Department's "Statement Of Principles"
White Papers Accordingly, DNS management was privatized and internationalized through the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a 7 year-old nonprofit corporation headquartered in California.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
UN Summit Reopens Debate Over Control Of The Net
News But the diplomatic subtext is more pointed: Does the US government have too much power to influence how internet addresses are allocated and domain names are assigned? Are the changes in the relationship with the Internet Corporation for Assigned...
[October 27, 2006, 16:00]
US Voices Openness To Private Net Control
News The hearing came as the agency contemplates whether to renew a memorandum of understanding, dating back to 1998, between the US government and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, the nonprofit organisation...
[July 27, 2006, 16:20]
UN Proposes Net Governance Changes
News Since 1998, domain names and internet addresses have been overseen by the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, under an agreement with the US Department of Commerce.
[October 31, 2006, 11:12]
A Year Ago: Domain Name Plan Resolved
News The new IANA, tentatively known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, submitted its proposal for re-incorporation last week. More likely, though, is continued conflict over the reorganization of the Internet Assigned...
[October 7, 1999, 7:30]
US Report: Domain Name Plan Resolved
News The new IANA, tentatively known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, submitted its proposal for re-incorporation last week. More likely, though, is continued conflict over the reorganization of the Internet Assigned...
[October 7, 1998, 11:27]
Public 'left Out' As Governments Plot Internet Regulation
News Dyson -- a founder chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- told a debate in London that the United Nations is taking the wrong approach to Internet regulation. Individual Internet users are being frozen out of...
[September 24, 2004, 16:45]
EC: Web 2.0 Means Power And Responsibility
News The IGF, a UN-sponsored "forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue" was established last year after governments failed to agree on the management of the internet's structure — a task that falls to the US-based non-profit Internet Corporation for...
[October 31, 2006, 13:14]
ICANN Still Rules The Internet Roost
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) received a last-minute reprieve at the World Summit on the Information While ICANN will continue its role of approving new top-level domains (TLDs), setting minimum prices for domain...
[November 23, 2005, 12:20]
US Stands Firm Over Internet Control
News Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) that position. Does the US government have too much control of Internet governance? It was because of the US government and the research funded by it that the Internet exists in the first...
[November 11, 2005, 16:20]
Keep Internet Out Of UN Control, Says US
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.
[October 19, 2005, 10:05]
Should The UN Administer The Internet?
News In a series of speeches over the last year, Zhao has suggested that the ITU could become involved in everything from security and spam to managing how IP addresses are assigned. Unfortunately we did not have a clear definition of Internet governance.
[March 30, 2005, 16:05]
ICANN To Fast Track Internationalised Domain Names
News The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced its plans to fast track the development of country-coded top level domains (ccTLDs) and local language scripting at the Internet Governance Forum in Rio de Janeiro...
[November 15, 2007, 9:44]
US Government Renews Domain-name Contract
News The US Government this week renewed its contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), effectively extending its grip on the administrative body that co-ordinates Net addressing until to 2011.
[August 17, 2006, 10:25]
ICANN Comes Under Fire - Again
News Sounds like deja vu for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is charged with coordinating the Internet's domain name system, an international network of Internet domain servers and Web addresses.
[April 2, 2002, 11:28]
ICANN On The Verge Of Financial Collapse
News The organisation is known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. ICANN has raised the ire of many in the Internet community for overstepping its mandate and setting up the groundwork for a United Nations-like...
[August 19, 1999, 16:16]
ICANN Expresses 'disappointment' In VeriSign
News VeriSign on Thursday sued the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in federal court in Los Angeles, claiming it was unlawfully prevented from adding new features to the domain name database it has a contract to run.
[March 1, 2004, 9:25]
Registrar Stumps Up Anti-VeriSign Fund
News The company said on Tuesday that it will pay up to $100,000 (£54,104) of the legal bills that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) may run up through defending a lawsuit filed last week by VeriSign.
[March 3, 2004, 9:05]
VeriSign Sues To Reinstate Redirection
News The suit, filed in the central district of California, claims that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has transformed itself during the past six years from a modest technical coordinating body into the "de facto...
[February 27, 2004, 7:35]
ICANN Heads For 'substantive' Meeting
News Representatives of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) predicted in a conference call that the dozens of working groups will produce more "substantive" discussions than those formed during previous meetings, which were...
[October 28, 2003, 9:35]
