Internet Is Free Finally Us To Handover Dns System To Icann
The US government will renounce the control of DNS, leaving that entire task in the hands of a private organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 1st of October, 2016. The decision was announced by the National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) on Tuesday (16/08). ICANN, established in 1998, is already responsible for DNS management through a contract with the US Department of Commerce. But the US government – which funded largely the early days of the Internet, originally a military project – kept its supervisory power....