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EU calls on Obama to give up Internet oversight

Major decisions on Internet made solely by a California-based nonprofit

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updated 10:43 a.m. ET, Mon., May 4, 2009

BRUSSELS - A senior European Union official called on President Barack Obama to give up United States' oversight of the Internet.

Major decisions on how the Internet is run are made solely by the California-based nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — which is overseen by the U.S. Commerce Department under an agreement that expires September 30.

New Web address endings could be start of turf wars

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New Web address endings could be start of turf wars
4/7/2009 2:30 PM
By Charisse Jones, USA TODAY


A sea change may be coming to cyberspace with Web addresses ending in anything from .a to .z. That has businesses increasingly worried they will have to spend millions to guard their brand names.

The familiar .com, .net, .org and 18 other suffixes officially "generic top-level domains" could be joined by a seemingly endless stream of new ones next year under a landmark change approved last summer by the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, the entity that oversees the Web's address system.


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