The U.S. seems ready to give up control of the internet
The NTIA made a surprising announcement Friday when it said it might relinquish control of the contract that is awarded to ICANN for managing what acts as an address book for the internet.
This group just created a address book for the internet of things
A new company wants to build the equivalent of domain names and the DNS system for the internet of things. It fills a need, but is it the right approach?
ICANN unleashes the mother of all domain-name land grabs
The agency that controls the domain name system — the central directory for the internet — has launched a program that could create hundreds of new domains. But critics, including the FTC, say there is no need, and the only outcome will be chaos and lawsuits.
Looks like Congress has declared war on the internet
A new copyright bill proposed in the House would give governments and private corporations unprecedented powers to remove websites from the internet completely, on the flimsiest of grounds, and would also force internet service providers to play the role of copyright police or face penalties.
The Internet’s Future As A Single Global Network Is Challenged
Without getting heavily into internet inside baseball, Joi Ito, ICANN board member and chairman of Six Apart Japan, explains why we should a…