US Seeks Veto Powers Over New TLDs

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday February 8, 2011 @07:00AM from the start-requiring-more-vowels dept.

suraj.sun writes "The Obama administration is quietly seeking the power for it and other governments to veto future top-level domain names, a move that raises questions about free expression, national sovereignty, and the role of states in shaping the future of the Internet. At stake is who will have authority over the next wave of suffixes to supplement the venerable .com, .org, and .net. At least 115 proposals are expected this year, including .car, .health, .nyc, .movie, and .web, and the application process could be finalized at a meeting in San Francisco next month."

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Re:Governments love power by 99BottlesOfBeerInMyF · 2011-02-08 08:18 · Score: 5, Informative

There is no surprise that Obama wants this power.
Except, of course, the summary was completely wrong and it is a proposal to spread out power among more nations and provide a place for an international consensus as opposed to a power grab by a single person or government. Now don't you feel silly for having wasted a perfectly good "power corrupts" speech?