The US Department of Commerce has quietly renewed ICANN's contract to run the Internet - but other organisations are crying foul, saying ICANN is simply not up to the job.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has formally announced a proposal to make domain tasting a thing of the past by changing the way it charges for domain names.
The governance of the Internet remains in the hands of ICANN, but the organisation has been ordered to be more transparent.
ICANN has just two choices regarding its agreement with VeriSign and registries for the .com, .net and .org domains, attendees at the organisation's public forum in Melbourne have been told.
The Internet's governing body has threatened to pull VeriSign's contract to sell Web addresses unless the domain name company maintains more accurate records of its customers.
An Internet taskforce is calling for increased accuracy of domain-name owner data and the elimination of bulk marketing that uses domain-name information.
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