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Dec. 1, 2009

Trouble in Cyberspace

ICANN, the private regulator of Internet domain names, takes flak from all sides as it rolls out an ambitious expansion plan.


Governing the Internet is a bit like trying to catch the wind in your hand. Originally an American creation, the Net is now a global network with 1.6 billion users and intense competition for domain-name allocation and control. The best known of the Internet authorities?the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) based in Marina del Rey?was founded in 1998 as a priv...

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