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August 1, 2002

The operators of the world's five largest Internet domains today asked the U.S. Commerce Department to scale back the powers of the body that manages the Internet's global addressing system. 

The three companies that manage dot-com, dot-net, dot-org, dot-de and dot-uk told Commerce Department Undersecretary Nancy Victory that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) should be reined in. 

ICANN leaders have "very, very creatively interpreted their authority to get into areas they were never authorized to get into," Roger Cochetti, senior vice president of policy at VeriSign Inc., said today. "What [Commerce officials] need to do is ensure that ICANN as their agent conducts only activities for which it is authorized and no others." 

The world's largest Internet addressing company, VeriSign operates dot-com, dot-net and dot-org -- the first, third and fifth largest domains. 

DENIC, which operates dot-de, and Nominet UK, which operates dot-uk, collaborated on the statement with VeriSign and several other, smaller registry operators. 

In a letter to Victory dated today, the trade association representing the European registry operators said that they had worked closely with VeriSign "in reaching a common view of a lightweight ICANN." 

More at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31870-2002Aug1.html