The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) have come to an agreement which releases oversight of Internet domains from United States control and turns ICANN into a global private-sector led organization.
Plans to introduce new top-level Internet domains will not force trademark owners to make defensive registrations to protect their brands, according to two reports published by ICANN.
Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for Internet-related issues, called Monday for a new multilateral approach to Internet governance once the current system expires at the end of September.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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ICANN president to step down
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