The US government has renewed its contract with Net overseeing company ICANN to manage top-level technical functions for the Internet's domain name system (DNS).
ICANN has been granted exclusive rights, for no consideration, to run the so-called IANA function until 2011, although the contract is subject to annual review and renewal.
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ICANNS statement
as we know, there was some arguably good tendency to make the internet management more international but on the other hand as long as the US Government is against .xxx then I can't complain
