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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:I have educated myself, YOU have not by Planesdragon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It has become part of a world body that has done precious little to actually help the world

    The UN was designed to do one thing: prevent World War III.

    It did that exceptionally well. The USSR and the USA never had a huge tank/nuke war in Europe, and their proxy wars were fought with unusual restraint given that each side had nuclear arms.

    The fact that the UN has been used to do some other things is a comparative footnote.