ICANN to be Granted Independence in 2009

[ashaw]

The European Commission welcomed on Monday U.S. government moves to make the company that manages Internet domain names independent by 2009, but said it would monitor the process carefully. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which controls addresses including ".com" and country domain names such as ".cn" for China, now reports to the U.S. Commerce Department.



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Will this have much effect on domain owners?

 

[meka2003]

Not unless they changed the prices.

 

[Kate]

Basically does it mean they will be accountable to no-one ? :yell: