ccTLD Governance Project, International Telecommunications Union Workshop on Member States and ccTLDs, Geneva, Switzerland
Archive for March, 2003
Governments Hold Reins in Those National Domains
GENEVA—The story of Internet governance typically focuses on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California, non-profit corporation. Established by the U.S. government in 1998, its mandate is to administer issues such as the allocation of new top-level domains and the implementation of a domain name dispute resolution policy.