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Isn't the ICANN supposed to be independent though? I thought that had been their main fight in the last 20 years
by Biganon 6y ago
Isn't the ICANN supposed to be independent though? I thought that had been their main fight in the last 20 years
- kube-system 6y agoYes, but the registries that operate TLDs are not.
- tialaramex 6y agoEver since the ccTLDs were bulk generated the sovereign entities they notionally belong to have exercised about the level of control over them that you'd expect. See also the flags flown by ships. If a ship has a French flag, the French state actually takes some responsibility for it, even if you saw it in port in Brazil, that's still a French flag, France cares about that ship 'cos it has their flag on it and they don't let that flag fly just anywhere. On the other hand, if the ship has the Comoros flag, well, don't expect too much from a poor island nation that was mostly glad of the cheque paid. If you're lucky Comoros can give you the phone number for the people who actually own it, but they want nothing to do with that ship. What matters here is that these were gTLDs operated by American registries, so it's up to the Americans if they want.
- syshum 6y agoVerisign, a US Corporation, Controls the .com namesapce