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ICANN is not "American" necessarily, other than it's incorporated in America. Transition of ICANN from the US government to a fully private organization happen
by mattzito 12y ago
ICANN is not "American" necessarily, other than it's incorporated in America. Transition of ICANN from the US government to a fully private organization happened years ago.
- tokenizerrr 12y agoThey are American much in the same way that Google and Facebook are American, are they not?
- mattzito 12y agoExcept that they're explicitly international - they have boards with international representation, they move their meetings around to different countries to try to be equal, and in general don't specifically advance a US-specific agenda. Years ago, ICANN was funded/an arm of the US Department of Commerce, and then it could justifiably be accused of having an American perspective. The CCTLD operators got annoyed that the US was running things, and eventually the US DoC spun off ICANN into its own independent entity, and ICANN self-funded through what are basically taxes on registrations.