SV: [governance] New dot com agreement changes USG-ICANN relationship

[Wolfgang Kleinwächter]

Dear Milton,
 
thanks very much for posting this. 
 
What are the consequences of this statement? Does it mean that the DOC will claim final authority over all gTLDs? Or is the .co,m case just an exception, unique and can be explained only with the special history? And what about .net? The 2000 contract included both .org and .net. The original idea was to allocate .org and .net to two new registries to stimulate competition. But .net was re-allocated to VeriSign. If the DOC says it is respionsible for "compeition" does it mean the .net contract needs also approval and has to be reconsidered? Or is competition seen as an internal US affa5ri, ignoring the rest of the world? 
 
Best regards
 
wolfgang
  

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Fra: Milton Mueller [mailto:Mueller at syr.edu]
Sendt: fr 01-12-2006 20:01
Til: Governance
Emne: [governance] New dot com agreement changes USG-ICANN relationship



ICANN's 8-year experiment in nongovernmental governance of the
Internet's domain name system all but came to an end November 30. The
U.S. Department of Commerce announced that it, and not ICANN, would be
the ultimate "decider" when it comes to dot com. Dot com is the largest
and most valuable Internet top level domain, accounting for about 50% of
the global market.

Read the complete story at the IGP site:
http://internetgovernance.org/news.html#ICANNVeriSignSettlement_113006
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