Word: icann
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Angeles, asking exactly who controls the Internet is like asking “who controls the flow of the ocean.” Yet it must be possible to control the Internet in some way. Currently an American company known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) handles many aspects of Internet governance. It controls the assignment of domain names, Internet Protocol numbers, and country specific extensions (like .ca for Canada and .de for Germany). ICANN was founded in 1998 by the Clinton administration and operates, at least in theory, free from the interference...
...currently managed by the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a non-profit company set up by the U.S. Department of Commerce to oversee the use of domain names, addresses and country domain suffixes. Although technology firms such as Google, IBM and Microsoft testified that ICANN is doing a good job with no interference, ever, from the U.S. government, developing countries insisted that the Internet should be managed by a multinational body such as the UN. The issue was resolved on the first day of the summit by creating an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) made...
...create more competition, the U.S. agency icann designed new top-level domains - including .biz and .museum. ICANN also approved GNR's proposed suffix .name, which will allow individuals to set up personal home pages using their first and last names (for example, jane.doe.name...
...While he's not certain about his future, Hadfield does plan to go to university. But first he wants to spend a year working abroad, perhaps on a computer literacy project in India or at the U.S.-based Internet authority icann. Oh, the options! Sometimes, Hadfield says, the choices give him "brain overload." If finding a new path is too much, there's always the old. At this rate, he could squeeze in a dozen more start-ups before he hits retirement...
...Wilson] consented to remain, until a plan for choosing her successor is determined, after wide public study and consultation. None of the four remaining directors is anxious to stay on the ICANN Board--they're doing so out of a public-spirited commitment to the ICANN process," wrote McLaughlin, who is also a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. "The consensus ...was that the number of At Large directors on the ICANN Board should remain at nine...