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What’s In a Name? — DNS Singularity of ICANN and The Gold Rush: by Sharath Chandra Ram — published Mar 31, 2013 — filed under: ICANN, Internet Governance
March 2013 being the 28th birthday of the first ever registered Internet domain as well as the exigent launch of the Trademark Clearing House disguised as a milestone in rights protection by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for it’s new gTLD program, Sharath Chandra Ram, dissects the transitory role of ICANN from being a technical outfit to the Boardroom Big Brother of Internet Governance.
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Control Shift?: by Pranesh Prakash — published Oct 08, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:22 AM — filed under: ICANN, Internet Governance
The USA has ceded control of the Internet over to Icann, but only partially. (This post appeared as an article in Down to Earth, in the issue dated November 15, 2009.)
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The ICANN-US DOC 'Affirmation of Commitments' - A Step Forward?: by Anja Kovacs — published Oct 06, 2009 — last modified Aug 02, 2011 07:16 AM — filed under: Public Accountability, ICANN, internet governance
On 30 September 2009, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) signed an Affirmation of Commitments (AoC) with the US Government's Department of Commerce. For those of us who are concerned that the Internet should serve the global public good, is the new arrangement a step forward? An assessment.
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