After opening its quarterly forum to public input, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been criticized for protecting the monopoly of US domain name registrar VeriSign
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14 March 2001 y., Wednesday
After opening its quarterly forum to public input, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has been criticized for protecting the monopoly of US domain name registrar VeriSign, and of not supporting more open international competition among registry businesses.
Public debate has focused around a backflip by the ICANN over an agreement it announced in 1999, to reduce the registry monopoly enjoyed by VeriSign by forcing the company to give up either its domain name registration business or its domain name registry business, which involves governing the technical process of registering an address. As VeriSign receives nearly $12 for each domain name registered, it was expected to keep this latter business.
Two months before ICANN's deadline for VeriSign to choose the business it will continue with, though, the international organization has unveiled a new proposal that would allow VeriSign to keep both businesses.
This debate followed criticisms by VeriSign's rival domain name registrar Tucows, which is lobbying for new privacy policies after claiming concern that the current Registrar Agreement between ICANN and VeriSign could allow registrars and their resellers to use registrants' details for unsolicited marketing.
These controversies have somewhat overshadowed what ICANN no doubt saw as a more positive start on its Melbourne conference, when it announced this week the re-election of Dr Paul Twomey to its Government Advisory Committee (GAC).The GAC provides advice to ICANN on government-related issues surrounding domain names, such as registration and top level domains.
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