U.S. Government is Out, ICANN Needs a New Overseer
The U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administrationt declared that it will hand off oversight of Internet names and addresses to another authority, and not one that would still be under the government's management.
Administrator of Domain Name System Launches Global Multistakeholder Accountability Process
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today launched a process to transition the role of the United States Government relating to the Internet's unique identifiers system.