Domain Registration Related News
VeriSign given control of .net until 2011
June 2005
ICANN has finally voted in favour of giving
VeriSign control of the .net registry for the next
six years.
The Board handed back control of the registry on
Tuesday at the third special meeting in a month
called to sort out what has become a highly
controversial issue.
The decision was announced late yesterday - 36
hours after the meeting - and its minutes and
resolutions are still unpublished.
At a meeting last week, the vote to approve
VeriSign fell after four board members abstained
from voting and two opposed the motion. With four
members absent at the meeting, ICANN ensured that
the same didn't happen again this week.
As an indication of the anger and confusion
surrounding the redelegation, ICANN has also
produced a lengthy document detailing the entire
process. It details each step in the process and
the issues raised along the way. Crucially however
there is no mention of the significant changes
made solely by ICANN after the public evaluation
process which had the decisive impact of handing
control to VeriSign.
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