US Seeks Veto Powers Over New TLDs

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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Just great

[GameboyRMH]

The US government has noticed that when they shut down freenfl.com they just move to freenfl.cn or something like that, and now they want to prevent this by claiming ownership of all countries' domain names, which they are at least technically capable of doing...