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ICANN Cuts the Apron Strings

October 2, 2009

According to ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, nobody but nobody controls the Internet. Not China, not Comcast, not your IT guy, not Clippy, nobody. The Final Boss of the Internet does not exist. But there does exist a nonprofit that governs Web addresses, and that's Dengate Thrush's organization...

EU Commissioner Urges US to Cut ICANN’s Umbilical Cord

May 4, 2009

The Internet is an American invention, and the governing body that assigns domain names to Web sites around the world has had its roots in the U.S. However, it's time for ICANN -- the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- to go "global" in every sense of the word, according to one E...

Internet Patriarch Cerf Leaves ICANN, Sets Sights on Space Web

October 30, 2007

Vinton Cerf, known by many as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, will be stepping down at the end of this week as chairman of the board of ICANN. Cerf, who is also Google's vice president and chief Internet evangelist, has served for three consecutive terms as chairman of ICANN, which is t...

Industry Welcomes EPA’s Plan for PC Monitor Disposal

July 29, 2006

The Environmental Protection Agency last week approved a new framework to regulate the disposal of old computer monitors with cathode ray tubes and aged TVs loaded with mercury, a move that is being applauded by the computer industry. "CEA agrees with the EPA's statement that a CRT not recycled is a...

Silicon Prairie May Be Fertile Ground for Emerging Homeland Security Biz

March 7, 2006

Silicon Valley -- the sprawling suburbs of San Francisco and San Jose -- first emerged during the 1960s as a prime location for the Pentagon to conduct research and development work during the Cold War. Will the Silicon Prairie -- the stretch of land between Chicago and downstate Champaign-Urbana --...

China Looks to Master Its Own Domains

March 1, 2006

The Chinese government this week indicated it was tired of waiting for the U.S.-controlled International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to come up with Chinese character versions of .com and other top level domains and instead will create the domains on its own. News of the strategy was ...

ICANN Changes Course on ‘.XXX’ Domain

December 5, 2005

Raising the possibility that it will change course once again on a hotly debated move meant to give adult content Web sites their own Internet realm, the net's governing body has decided to shelve a plan to discuss how to create a ".xxx" domain. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Number...

ICANN, VeriSign Settle Domain Dispute

October 26, 2005

The Internet's governing body has agreed to settle several outstanding lawsuits involving domain registrar VeriSign, an agreement that will keep that company in charge of the key dot-com domain until 2012. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said the settlement is still s...

Worlds in Transition: IT in Eastern Europe

September 6, 2003

Only 15 years ago, we watched in amazement while the rusty iron curtain collapsed and the formerly communist countries of Eastern Europe embarked on new lives in the global market. For most of us, this neglected region stretching from the Baltic to the Balkans then retreated to the fringes of our at...

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