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...accepted by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the proposal would give the board power over assigning Internet domain names, such as www.harvard.edu, to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), of which Wilson would be a member...
...proposal is accepted by the department, ICANN would control these businesses, recognizing official domain name providers as well as creating new endings for domain names, such as .biz or .store, to allow for more competition in Internet registration services...
...Commerce Department announced its intention to turn administration of domain names over to a not-for-profit corporation in June. Currently, an organization seeking a domain name ending in .com, .net, or .org must purchase the domain from Network Solutions, Inc. (NSI), a for-profit corporation operating under government contract...
Additional objections were raised in a publiccomment sent to the Department of Commerce by J.William Semich, President and CFO of .NU DomainLtd., a domain name provider...
...official position statement released lastweek, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), anInternet advocacy group, also criticized theproposal for lacking due process and free speechprotections. As ICANN would be a private entityrather than a government contractor, EFF argued,groups or corporations denied domain names wouldhave little recourse. Dyson is a board member ofEFF as well as the new corporation...