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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:The ITU != the rest of UN by Frank+T.+Lofaro+Jr. · · Score: 1, Troll

    The UN is often outright anti-Christian.

    Christians are persecuted in Nigeria too (sometimes burned and beheaded) - but the UN won't even publicize that either.

    The UN is anti-Christian and anti-American in many ways.

    If we complain about it - we are called bigots.

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