US to keep control of domain names, for now
The United States will keep control of the domain-name system that guides Internet traffic under an agreement reached on Wednesday, resolving a dispute that threatened to fracture the global computer network.
Negotiators at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society said they had agreed to set up a forum to discuss "spam" e-mail and other Internet issues and explore ways to narrow the technology gap between rich and poor countries.
But that forum will have no power to regulate the Internet or wrest control of the domain-name system from the United States, as many countries had sought.
However, in about 18 months, the agreement between several private companies and the U.S. Department of Commerce that forms the basis for ICANN comes to an end, and big changes may be in store, he said.
There are several possible outcomes, all of which ICANN president Paul Twomey said are "on the table." The Department Commerce could drop out of the agreement and ICANN could become a private business. There's also the possibility of allowing international government oversight, he added.
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