US gov't official: ICANN gTLD plan should move forward

Calls for the U.S. government to halt a plan by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to offer new generic top-level domains are shortsighted because they could lead to other countries attempting to exert control over ICANN, a U.S. government official said Wednesday.

By Grant Gross | 12 January, 2012 08:02

Tags: Bob Goodlatte, Brookings Institution, Coalition for Responsible Internet Domain Oversight, government, Howard Berman, internet, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, Lawrence Strickling, Rod Beckstrom, Stephen Crocker, U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration