VeriSign To Control .com Domain Until 2012

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday October 25, 2005 @08:01AM from the good-deal dept.

DIY News wrote to mention a Reuters article reporting that VeriSign will control the .com domain until 2012, according to an agreement with ICANN. From the article: "The agreement settles a long-running dispute between the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, and the most powerful company under its jurisdiction. The settlement comes at a time when ICANN is under attack from China, Iran and other countries that want more direct control over the domain-name system that guides traffic around the Internet."

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China and Iran? by geoffrobinson · 2005-10-25 08:15 · Score: 0, Troll

Darn Americans trying to control everything! Can we please allow the U.N. to control the Internet so we can have an easier time suppressing our people?

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what if... by CDPatten · 2005-10-25 08:30 · Score: 0, Troll

Verisign wound up only controlling the "US internet and China, Cuba, and France create their own .com TLD separate from ours.

What happens to all the billions of computers that try to go to indowsupdate.microsoft.com?