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...