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The organization that most people hate (due to fees) has renewed its contract with the US Government. The Dept of Commerce will oversee the organization. I am doubtful that ICANN't will ever be ready for independant thinking.
The organization that most people hate (due to fees) has renewed its contract with the US Government. The Dept of Commerce will oversee the organization. I am doubtful that ICANN't will ever be ready for independant thinking.
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For years, the U.S. government has been saying it ultimately intends to unleash ICANN from its control. It has operated the Net addressing system under an agreement with U.S. authorities since 1998. At a recent public hearing, John Kneuer, the department's acting assistant secretary for communications and information, said the agency remained "committed" to that transition but gave no indication of when that may happen. Over the years, controversy has plagued ICANN, which grew out of a clandestine meeting in Cambridge, Mass. Critics in the past have accused it of lacking transparency in its operations and moving sluggishly to approve new top-level domain names. More recently, Capitol Hill politicians and advocacy groups have criticized the organization for agreeing to what amounts to a perpetual contract with VeriSign to run the .com registry, which some say would result in unnecessary price hikes and a veritable monopoly.