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Biggest change in domain name registration
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In the past few days, you may have heard statements such as “The US government gave up the rights to the Internet on October 1st”. Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration but there is a real story behind it. We will be brief today and make it simple.

  1. There is a non-profit organization called ICANN. If you own a domain name, you would have received occasional notices from them to update your ownership information for your domain name(s).
  2. ICANN stands for Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Its primary function is to manage domain names around the world.
  3. Until October 1st, 2016, the U.S. government (specifically the Federal National Telecommunications and Information Administration) had control over ICANN and oversaw its activities, its protocols, and more.
  4. This control of the U.S.A. over ICANN was established in a contractual agreement almost two decades ago and expired on 10-01-2016.
  5. That means that now the U.S. government does not have any say in ICANN’s governing and that ICANN now solely answer to its stakeholders who are a mixed of experts, advisors, and industry entities from various countries.

This is very big news in the Internet community but will have no effect on your domain name ownership.

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