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EU Domain Registries & ICANN

Posted by Hemos on from the fight-the-man dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:Shit for shit by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    It seems quite clear that the rest of the world wants alternatives to US technologies, even if they work, they're efficient and/or well managed. That should tell you something of the level of trust other countries have in future US foreign policies.

    s/future/current/

    Speaking as an outsider, George W Bush is the worst PR guy you guys have had for a very long time. The collective ego represented by Bush and the current Republican government is staggering: obviously there was the whole Iraq thing; we've got legislation and trade agreements driven by major US interests coming out of everywhere even where they're clearly not in the interests of the local little guys; and just last week Bush himself went home from the G8 summit after telling the rest of the world to get stuffed on the environment. You have a government that, by its own admission and demonstration, is prepared to wage war, force its will on foreign legal systems, and wreck the planet, all in the interest of its economic drivers. Is it really any wonder that the rest of the world is no longer willing to leave such important facilities at the Internet and the GPS network under so much US-centric control?

    In case anyone's wondering, this isn't meant as a troll, BTW. That really is the way the US is currently perceived over here, according to just about every conversation I've had on the subject for a long time now.

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  2. Re:So basically. by bheer · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    If you think an 'Empire' sacrifices its own tax dollars and the blood of its own people to make sure democracy takes roots in a foreign land, then yeah -- I'm proud of this Empire.

    Last I heard, the oldstyle European empires mainly used their colonies as income sources, leaving most of them (esp the third-world ones) as basket cases when they left.

    This new American Empire sure looks good by comparison.

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