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Fri 08 Aug 2008Top-level domains: if you or I can, do we need Icann?
WIRED:THERE WAS a time when the internet didn’t just have a father or a godfather: for a brief period, it had a fully fledged god. The god died and a private company, Icann, took his place. Now it’s time we asked – do we even need that?
In January 1998, Jon Postel, one of the most respected figures among the tech pioneers of the net, sent an e-mail to eight of the 12 operators of the internet’s “root name servers”.
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