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US to Hand Over Control of the Internet ‘Address Book’ to ICANN
A tiny branch of the U.S. Commerce Department is preparing to hand over control of the Internet’s “address book”—the highest level of the Domain Naming System, or DNS—to the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, a Los Angeles-based international nonprofit, effective Oct. 1, Ars Technica reports. Republican lawmakers have tried to block the move,…