ICANN is not the controlling body for the ".". That role belongs to the
US Dept. of Commerce. It chooses to take ICANN's advice, but has no duty
to do so. Lengthy legal details at:
http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann-main.htm
or
http://personal.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf
On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Bruce Campbell wrote:
[...]
So, your statement regarding the creation of '.biz' and others being
impossible is incorrect, as ICANN, for better or for worse, appears to be
the current Registrar for the Top Level Domain ('.') for the time being,
Where does it say that? It's DoC!
and can (under RFC920) investigate and by extension implement, new top
level domains.
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