EU Domain Registries & ICANN

rob_levine writes "Following on from the announcement a few weeks ago that the U.S. Department Of Commerce intends to retain control of the Internet's root domain servers (originally to be relinquished in 2006), several EU domain registries are preparing to build, test and install a system to prevent U.S. government meddling, according to this article in The Register. Could this be the beginning of the end of the centralised autocracy that is ICANN?"

Comments

So basically.

[Anonymous Coward]

So basically the EU is trying to tell ICANN UCANT?

Re:So basically.

[aklix]

EUCANT, because Europeans can't spell.

And you thought Bush misspoke...

[bigtallmofo]

When President Bush referred to The Internets, many people thought he was mis-speaking. He was apparently foreshadowing a plan to make sure that Europe gets off our Internet and makes their own!

He who controls information, and so on...

[de Bois-Guilbert]

Well this certainly sounds creepy.

"NO, we will NEVER relinquish control! The Internet is ours, only ours! moahahaha"

Although this would certainly sound more sinister spoken with a german or french accent.

Here's a great website for ya...

[Kookus]

I tell all my relatives, when they want to search for something on the internets all they gotta do is goto http://64.233.167.99/ It's this website called Google. It searches for stuff that you can find on the European network and the U.S. Network!!!
I wish they could come up with something for those windows updates, because it's really hard trying to remember 207.46.18.94...

Re:Opening up a new world of TLDs

[kote-men-do]

.gun-wielding-burger-eating-redneck

Or maybe we could just stick to .usa?

Re:Fragmentation, here we come

[Anonymous Coward]

What makes you think that everything belongs in a country? In which country do you think un.org belongs?

Re:Fragmentation, here we come

[CptNerd]

un.org.anized.