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ICANN Plays Down U.S. Influence

Posted by Zonk on from the plays-up-smooth-taste-low-fat dept.

aychamo writes "The ICANN (the company that distributes most of the world's internet addresses) is denying that it gives the US government too much control over its operations. For instance, the US was the only country able to stop ICANN from using .xxx for pr0n domains, instead of .com. The ICANN is planning events to show that it is not US influenced." From the article: "ICANN's board of directors appears to favor a proposal for a new set of Internet addresses that end in .Asia, which would more easily identify Asia-focused Web sites. Approval of the new top-level domain could come during the ICANN board of directors meeting on Sunday. One other major development this week involves progress toward allowing the use of non-English language characters when steering a Web browser to a particular site. ICANN is now exploring a proposal to open Web browsers up to dozens of the world's other alphabets. Actual tests of just such a system are now in the works, Twomey said. "

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  1. However... by AthenianGadfly · · Score: 4, Funny

    "The ICANN (the company that distributes most of the world's internet addresses) is denying that it gives the US government too much control over its operations."

    Immediately after the denial, however, they added, "But please don't tell the government we said that."

  2. Further news by pubjames · · Score: 4, Funny

    Today ICANN announced that they would create a ".arab" top level domain name, to reassure the world that they were not overly influenced by the US government. "We think a .arab domain name would allow arabs to more easily identify arab focused web sites, and demonstrates that at ICANN we don't just focus on the US, but also we try to accomodate less significant countries, like Europe, Canada and Arab places like Iraq." The spokesman added "I'm sure it will also help the fight against terrorism".

  3. Re:God damn it by alexandreracine · · Score: 3, Funny

    and it should not be .xxx or .com but .cum

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  4. Re:In the other news... by east+coast · · Score: 3, Funny

    When international TLDs ".christian", ".jewish" and ".mormons" were proposed, received feedback made ICANN to deploy also ".asian-religions", ".african-religions" ".native-indian-religions" to represent worldwide view. It was rumoured, that a call from Saudi Arabia's prince and trade officials of some government made ICANN to enforce additional sub-TLD ".islam.arabs".

    Damn them! I must now petition for ".cthulhu-cult"

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