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The Internet Needs a Plan B

March 14, 2013March 18, 2013 Staff Writer

LONG BEACH, California — Danny Hillis is one of the earliest internet users. He registered the third domain name ever, Think.com (“I thought, so many interesting names, maybe I should register a few other names? Nahh that wouldn’t be very nice.”) Clutching a gray book about an inch thick on stage, Hillis described those early days. “This is everyone who had an internet address in 1982,” Hillis told the crowd at TED 2013 on Wednesday. “It had your name, address and phone number. You were actually listed twice, because it…

Federal Council adopts internet domain name strategy

March 1, 2013March 18, 2013

Switzerland’s Federal Council ad adopted a strategy for handling internet domain names. The Council hopes this strategy will ensure better protection of its own interests and those of Switzerland in the area of domain names. It has outlined the kinds of names which are particularly worthy of protection and which should be used only by the Federal government. These also include names for the state apparatus and for federal institutions. source

House Subcommittee Hearing to Address Global Internet Governance

January 31, 2013 Staff Writer

The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology will kick off the new Congress with a joint hearing Feb. 5 on how U.S. policy can keep the global Internet free from international regulation. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), chairman of the subcommittee, laid out his agenda this morning covering everything from wireless spectrum policy to reform of the Federal Communications Commission. source