Commerce Dept. to Keep Control of TLDs

In an explicit policy reversal, the U.S. Commerce Department has announced it does not intend to turn over administration of the Internet's country codes to ICANN.

The U.S. Commerce Department’s assistant secretary for communications and information Michael Gallagher yesterday made explicit a policy reversal which, though not unexpected, disappoints many experts and international observers: the U.S. does not intend to turn over administration of the Internet’s top level country codes