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Kieren McCarthy on the Import of 2005

by Bret Fausett at 03:52PM (PST) on December 29, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos | Digg This

2005: The year the US government undermined the Internet: "On 28 July 2005 at a special [ICANN] board meeting ....consciously and for the first time, ICANN used a US government-provided reason to turn over Kazakhstan's internet ownership to a government owned and run association without requiring consent from the existing owners. The previous owners, KazNIC, had been created from the country's Internet community...."

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Re: Kieren McCarthy on the Import of 2005

by dpf on Fri 30 Dec 2005 07:37 AM PST | Profile | Permanent Link

I e-mailed the author just to point out that this is not a new thing. ICANN has redelagted ccTLDs without agreement of existing managers for years - .pn and .au being two famous ones.

Re: Kieren McCarthy on the Import of 2005

by Froomkin on Mon 02 Jan 2006 08:11 AM PST | Profile | Permanent Link

Is this really so different from grabbing .au and giving to an Australian-government-sponsored body for reasons provided by the Australian government? Why?

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