ICANN't beleive it!
I'm not actually sure that this is a good thing, given ICANN's history.
ICANN takeover in October
DNS overlord ICANN is all set to take control of the internet's highest level from the US government on October 1, it was confirmed this week. California-based non-profit ICANN runs a technical body called IANA, which oversees the world's DNS, IP address allocations, and protocol assignments. ICANN operates IANA for the US …
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Friday 19th August 2016 19:02 GMT Anonymous Coward
Yes, amazingly ICANN is so badly run and obviously corrupt that countries who are skeptical of or even outright hostile to the US government aren't sure ICANN leaving behind its last vestiges of US control is a good thing. They may end up making FIFA and the IOC look like the most well run organizations in the world by comparison!
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Saturday 20th August 2016 20:45 GMT Yes Me
No-op
"ICANN is all set to take control of the internet's highest level..."
Oh please. All we are really talking about is clerical activity, managing a name space in a slightly different way than it's been managed since 1998, which was a bit more organised than how it was managed before 1998. And there's a strange side-effect of capitalism that allows some scumbags to make unfair amounts of money out of that namespace. But the Internet's actual highest level is the BGP4 routing system, which is managed collectively by the transit ISPs of this world.
Despite all the garbage that's been written and spoken, this very minor change to ICANN's operating regime will actually have no noticeable effect on the overwhelming majority of users or operators, including all but handful of DNS server operators. Even most DNS registrars and DNS root zone operators will notice very little change in practice.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
