New shield repelled internet backbone attack
News The internet continued to run but it was a wake-up call for the root server operators", who set out to develop Anycast, ICANN said. The incident will be discussed at a meeting of DNS root server operators later this month, the organisation said.
[March 12, 2007, 8:24]
European Net registrars boycott ICANN
News Black said the European registries are asking ICANN to establish standards aimed at ensuring root server reliability and to sign contracts with the servers' operators. Since some root server operators are volunteers, the registries want to ensure...
[January 18, 2002, 11:36]
Global Web: An Internet governance run-down
News If the root server operators receive a set of top-level domains they find irrational, only the US-based ones can be forced by US law to use it. The US government — through ICANN — controls the master database currently used by every root server.
[November 17, 2005, 15:50]
DTI seeks views on the shape of ICANN
News ICANN's key technical functions include: managing the DNS root zone files (essentially, the master list of top level domain names (TLDs); recognising the Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs); allocating blocks of IPv4 and IPv6 (next generation...
[June 6, 2002, 11:52]
US voices openness to private Net control
News They came from a wide variety of sectors including Internet advocacy groups, domain registries, IP addressing organisations, root server operators, other businesses and the Canadian government. That brief policy statement riled up some in the...
[July 27, 2006, 16:20]
