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August 15, 2002

Responding to a high-level push to scale back the powers of the organization that manages the Internet's worldwide naming system, dozens of Internet address retailers are lobbying the U.S. government to protect the powers of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). 

While ICANN isn't perfect, it has done yeoman's work to introduce competition into the domain name industry and still has a major role to play in ensuring the stability of the Internet, a clutch of Internet registrars wrote in a letter that will go out to Commerce Department Undersecretary Nancy Victory in the next couple of days. Victory heads Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). 

Seven of the top ten Internet address sellers signed the letter along with more than 30 smaller registrars from 13 countries, said Mike Palage, who coordinated the signatures. Palage is the chair of the Internet registrar constituency within ICANN. 

"We agree that there needs to be an ICANN and that ICANN is about protecting competition and not about protecting individual competitors," Palage said describing the Internet registrar community's view. 

More at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23281-2002Aug15.html