Uncertainty over the future of Icann

It is unclear whether Icann remains responsible for the allocation of ip addresses and the dns root zone. The U.s. government has the request rejected. The organization would not meet certain requirements.

A request from Icann to its role to be allowed to continue to play, is rejected by the American ministry of economic affairs. It is therefore still unclear whether the Icann in the future as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority may occur, discovered, DomainIncite. Despite the international nature of the internet is the highest authority on the net still under the American government.

According to the American ministry is from the request of Icann have not shown that the new, additional requirements. So there would be a ‘strict separation of policy formulation and implementation’, as well as rules for prevention of conflicts of interest and more respect for local laws”. That would, by the international community is required, according to the U.s. department.

At the same time, the ministry still decided to permit Icann to extend until 30 september. Until then, the organization, which is responsible for the coordination of the issuance of ip addresses and the management of the dns root zone.

There is in different circles talk of dissatisfaction with the Icann, which has decided to from soon custom tld’s. Therefore, tlds as ‘.tweakers’ and ‘.amsterdam’ as possible. For a private top-level-domain, however, must substantially be paid, what the organization a lot of criticism came to. Also would the custom tlds cause confusion among internet users.