The emergence of a new international regime that is being organized around the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is traced; the regime has developed in response to the commercialization of the Internet and to the global debate over the management of domain names.The...

The Internet's Whois service allows anyone to type a domain name into a Web interface and then receive the name and contact details of whoever has registered it. ICANN contracts make it mandatory to provide indiscriminate public access to this information. Data protection laws in Europe and...

New security technologies are never neutral in their impact; it is known that they can alter power relations and economic dependencies among stakeholders. This article examines the attempt to introduce the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) to the Internet to help improve routing...