Americans extended their contract with ICANN until 2011

The US government in the face of the Department of Commerce still extended the contract with ICANN . Thus, the hopes of the world community for the privatization of the Internet were in vain. The new contract is formally valid for only one year, but the government has the right to renew it for five years.

The new contract ( text in PDF ) describes some technical details of the domain name system (DNS) management. This is a supporting document in relation to the main agreement (Memorandum of Understanding) between the US Department of Commerce and ICANN, which expires on September 30, 2006. However, now there is practically no doubt that it will also be extended.