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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. 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...