Internet governance bodies agree that improving online security is important, but disagree on what a more secure internet would look like.
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ICANN taking next steps to model internet self-governance
More influence of governments in internet governance has been contentious for years. At the its meeting in Helsinki this week, ICANN took steps towards independence.
As tricky top level domains still remain to be tackled, ICANN treks on
As many top level domains 'corpses' are left lying in the ropes of the internet, 1,200 new names are expected to flood the shores in two years from now. Are we doing this right?
Trials and tribulations of changing oversight of core internet infrastructure
The whole family of internet self-governing bodies are busy preparing their takes on how to reign the future Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). As a coordinator of core infrastructure services for naming (ICANN), numbering (Regional Internet Registries) and standardisation (IETF), IANA has been in the middle of quite some fights. This one
gTLDs are the highest level of domain names in the domain name system, including .com, .net and .org; their number has been restricted to twenty-two for several years. This will change, as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) - the organisation responsible for managing and coordinating the system - rolls out a new gTLDs