Two groups are signing up voters locked out of the Internet governing body's election in October.
Two groups have begun a renegade voter registration effort for Web users left out of an ICANN election in October due to the Internet governing body's computer problems.
One group, known as ComLink, based in Hanover, Germany, has signed up about 115 voters and expects more to come.
The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility is also collecting registrations through an eGroups e-mail group called "ICANNT."
Udo Schacht-Wiegand, a Comlink chairman, said his group expects to turn over the registration lists to ICANN, officially known as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
If ICANN refuses, the group may let its registrants cast ballots anyway, Schacht-Wiegand said.
An ICANN spokesman did not return a phone call requesting comment.
The ruckus is over ICANN's decision to add five at-large members to its board of directors by means of an online election beginning October 1.
Anyone 16 years or older and with an e-mail address was to have been allowed to register to vote. ICANN expected at most 10,000 people. Instead, more than 158,000 registered.
ICANN said it was forced to shut down the registration process because the huge numbers of registrants overwhelmed its computer systems.
