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Old 07-01-2010, 10:40 PM  
Odin
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Originally Posted by VGeorgie View Post
The US ultimately controls the Internet, via IANA, which is operated by ICANN on behalf of the US Commerce Department.


The .COM TLD is operated by VeriSign, a US company. That ultimately puts all .COM domains under the jurisdiction of the US government.
Well this is what I was wondering. I can't imagine very many countries would be happy with the US exerting that kind of control over the domain name system?
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