The domain of ‘dot-sucks’

WASHINGTON,DC: The U.S. government wants to relinquish control of the Web. But the alternative really dot-sucks.

Going back almost to the days when Al Gore invented the Internet, the federal government has been in charge of online addresses through its contract with the California-based nonprofit ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). Now, responding to growing international complaints because of the Edward Snowden affair, the feds are extricating themselves from this Series of Tubes.