More by circumstance than intention, the US has always had ultimate say over how the DNS is controlled - but not for much longer, the BBC r...

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN.org) is the entity that keeps the internet secure, stable and interoperable.

Governments, other than American, have little control over Icann, even as it governs the cyberspace on most aspects of policies that are so...

Ravi Shankar Prasad has called for a open, plural and inclusive Internet and said that it should not become a monopoly of a few.

Reiterating India's support to multi-stakeholder model for governing Internet, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said there should be fo...

India has proposed that Internet should be managed through multi-stakeholder approach and the governments should have "supreme right and co...

Another major worry, it feels, is the fact that Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) is US-based, and hence bound by U...

The US department of commerce announced that it would transfer IANA functions to the global multi-stakeholder community.

The US govt sought to convene global stakeholders to develop a proposal to transition away from US government oversight of the Internet's d...

The DNS is the equivalent of an internet phone book, which translates computer hostnames into numerical internet protocol.

The national stimulus package passed by Congress in February may have been too enthusiastic about spending money on one particular project:...