Internet governance is threatened by pressure from the U.S. authorities to come to the "off" unilateral domains regardless of global organizations have attributed the task of managing them. This is seen in an interview with AFP Stephane Van Gelder, president of the GNSO (Generic Names Supporting Organization) body ICANN.
"A year ago, the agencies fighting crime is the Interpol, the FBI and police from various states come to ICANN and the GNSO with lawsuits on the deactivation of sites and domains on the Internet," he explains. "We have been called twice by the White House to discuss the fight against counterfeiting and asked us how to fight this phenomenon ...
and done so aggressively." Gelder says that there has been enormous pressure on ICANN and the authorities attack on actors who can act "because they can not fight the mafia." The president of GNSO, U.S. authorities have proceeded to block hundreds of domains ending in. com, whose management is entrusted to the company Verisign, which often depend on thousands of other sites, from blogs to personal pages.
"Some were sites devoted to trade in counterfeiting, but many others had nothing illegitimate. For example, after the deactivation of the domain mooo. com, accused of harboring pornographic content, were closed by mistake 84,000 sites that depended on this domain, and that had nothing to do with these practices.
In this campaign of domain blocks, one of the sites has been affected by vBulletin. Gelder disturbing calls this policy "hostage taking" and treats surgery without anesthesia and with a large knife. "These are direct actions that do not respect the established system. It is the government that decides that there is an offense and blocks the site," regardless of the powers on the administration of GSNO and ICANN domains have.
ICANN was created in 1990 by the Clinton Administration and the powers delegated to it until then was the U.S. government in the management of Internet domain. It was to provide a multilateral governance structure to prevent any sospoechosa to other States. ICANN is a private non-profit under the laws of California.
Some countries, like India and China, claim that management has placed in the hands of the UN, but this step is viewed with suspicion by other governments and that diplomacy would delay the decision and give a key role to governments that practice censorship systematic on the Web, however, U.S.
President Barack Obama wants to give more power to governments to decide which new Internet domains should be introduced. The administration proposal would give veto power. 
"A year ago, the agencies fighting crime is the Interpol, the FBI and police from various states come to ICANN and the GNSO with lawsuits on the deactivation of sites and domains on the Internet," he explains. "We have been called twice by the White House to discuss the fight against counterfeiting and asked us how to fight this phenomenon ...
and done so aggressively." Gelder says that there has been enormous pressure on ICANN and the authorities attack on actors who can act "because they can not fight the mafia." The president of GNSO, U.S. authorities have proceeded to block hundreds of domains ending in. com, whose management is entrusted to the company Verisign, which often depend on thousands of other sites, from blogs to personal pages.
"Some were sites devoted to trade in counterfeiting, but many others had nothing illegitimate. For example, after the deactivation of the domain mooo. com, accused of harboring pornographic content, were closed by mistake 84,000 sites that depended on this domain, and that had nothing to do with these practices.
In this campaign of domain blocks, one of the sites has been affected by vBulletin. Gelder disturbing calls this policy "hostage taking" and treats surgery without anesthesia and with a large knife. "These are direct actions that do not respect the established system. It is the government that decides that there is an offense and blocks the site," regardless of the powers on the administration of GSNO and ICANN domains have.
ICANN was created in 1990 by the Clinton Administration and the powers delegated to it until then was the U.S. government in the management of Internet domain. It was to provide a multilateral governance structure to prevent any sospoechosa to other States. ICANN is a private non-profit under the laws of California.
Some countries, like India and China, claim that management has placed in the hands of the UN, but this step is viewed with suspicion by other governments and that diplomacy would delay the decision and give a key role to governments that practice censorship systematic on the Web, however, U.S.
President Barack Obama wants to give more power to governments to decide which new Internet domains should be introduced. The administration proposal would give veto power.
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