Corvillus

The US has decided to renew it’s ownership of ICANN, the organization responsible for governing domain names. While I’d much rather it be an international body, I suppose this isn’t too bad a deal since they’ve been running it for a long time now and doing a relatively good job of it. As long as the interests of the government and corporations don’t get in the way of the little guy, it’s not a problem.

However, I don’t agree with some of the stupid decisions they made in order to keep a very vocal subset of Americans happy. One example of such a decision would refusing to allow the .xxx domain name for adult websites, which in my opinion would have been a good idea, since it would allow governments and publishers to work to separate those sites from the .com stream, which would decrease the chance of somebody accidentally stumbling upon one.

More here [Reuters]