Domain Registration Related News
US moves to keep control of net names
October 2005
Members of the US House of Representatives said this week the US
should resist international pressure to give up authority over key
internet functions amid a mounting feud over the issue.
In a letter to Commerce and State Department officials, the lawmakers
said the Bush administration should retain strong oversight over the
internet domain name system, specifically the root servers that guide
traffic to huge databases containing addresses for all the top-level
domains, such as dot-com, dot-edu, and the country code domains such
as dot-uk and dot-jp.
The letter said: "Given the internet's importance to the world's
economy, it is essential that the underlying domain name system of the
internet remain stable and secure.
"As such, the United States should take no action that would have the
potential to adversely impact the effective and efficient operation of
the domain name system. Therefore, the United States should maintain
its historic role in authorizing changes or modifications to the
authoritative root zone file."
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