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U.S. Won't Let Go of DNS

Posted by Zonk on from the star-systems-will-slip-through-your-fingers dept.

An Anonymous Reader wrote in with a story on the Eweek site, reporting that the Federal Government is going to keep control of the Domain Name System rather than handing it over to ICANN. From the article: "...the United States is committed to taking no action that would have the potential to adversely impact the effective and efficient operation of the DNS, and will therefore maintain its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications to the authoritative root zone file..."

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  1. extremely arrogant by xiando · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ..and rude of them. That being said, it is very good to read that they will not allow anything that would make domain names suddenly not work - that at least is a very good thing.

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  2. Re:UN Tax by TheKidWho · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    and where would the money from this puported global internet tax go? To the UN? To where?

  3. Re:It's no wonder.... by Wyatt+Earp · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yea, because other nation-states give up control of important assets to international bodies.

    Look at how well the International Community handled the Suez after Egypt...oh wait, Egypt blocked it from 1954 to '57 and from '67 to '75.

    Or look at how well we've done since OPEC gave up control for the production rates of Oil...

    Or how cheap and murder free diamonds are since DeBeers stopped hording them...

  4. LEt's re-cap. by mindstrm · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm not American. I have no personal interest in this staying in America... however.

    What's the benefit to turning it over to ICANN? How will this benefit me or the internet at large?

    As far as I can tell, all ICANN has done is fuck up DNS with stupid new root zones, and waste millions of dollars on useless meetings.

    Why on earth would I want ICANN running the root zone? So they can fuck up DNS even more, with even less resistance?

  5. Troll title? by vsage3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Now /. is usually fair enough in its blurbs about articles, but what is going on with the title of this one? "U.S. Won't Let Go of DNS" connotes the U.S. is doing something wrong, which is certainly not the case of the opinions of most others here carry any weight. Too bad we can't mod down the Zonk's post for trolling :\

  6. Re:The ITU != the rest of UN by Aeiri · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    True. They also did nothing when Americans killed untold number of Vietnamese, and also when Americans bombed unreal amount of countries.

    Why are you using the past tense?