ICANN

Owing to the role of states in the management of country codes, the role of a central manager of the DNS, such as ICANN, is naturally larger in relation to generic TLDs than it is in relation to country codes.

Boing Boing: April 21, 2002 - April 27, 2002 Archives 2002

ICANN is responsible for maintaining the various technical standards that make the Internet possible on a low level.

Web Translations » Blog Archive » Internet changes likely to impact international Web businesses 2009

CFIT has essentially alleged that ICANN is a private standards-setting body akin to the NFPA.

Discourse.net: 9th Cir Revives .com Anti-Trust Case 2009

I wouldn't be surprised if 20 years from now, ICANN is privatized with arcane conversion rules that greatly benefit insiders and a trust to administer the proceeds of the conversion.

Discourse.net: ICANN Reverts to Its Roots 2009

ICANN is the midst of a consultation on a policy for the introduction of new top-level domains.

Belated happy birthdays! 2007

To help people manage all their contact information online, ICANN is considering a. tel domain name.

Minicon: Day 1 2006

"By taking this significant step forward in the transition to IPv6, ICANN is supporting the innovations through which the Internet evolves to meet the growing needs of a global economy," it says in a statement.

ICANN’s new IPv6 2004

Stuart Lynn in Shanghai got up and announced to the world that ICANN is going to have three new top-level domains of the sponsored type.

Boing Boing: December 1, 2002 - December 7, 2002 Archives 2002

ICANN is a big old mess and complicated as hell, but this is pretty fascinating stuff.

Boing Boing: March 24, 2002 - March 30, 2002 Archives 2002

Bob "Connectivity" Frankston has posted a great essay about the real-world ambiguity that ICANN is trying to shove into neat pigeonholes with its.

Boing Boing: August 4, 2002 - August 10, 2002 Archives 2002