<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Parminder,<div><br><div><div>On Aug 4, 2012, at 10:38 PM, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><font face="Verdana">I did not know that US government exercised review over ICANN's
routine contract renewals. </font></div></blockquote><div><br></div>It doesn't (AFAIK). I believe .COM/.NET are special because the USG has a contractual (cooperative agreemental?) relationship with Verisign related to the management of those zones that predates ICANN.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>-drc</div><div><br></div><br></div></body></html>