A version of this article was published on Breitbart.com.   By Rick Manning and Robert Romano For years conservative activists have prodded the House of Representatives to use their unique Constitutional power of the purse to rein in Obama Administration excesses.  This week, the U.S. House of Representatives is doing just that through a series of amendments that […]

By Robert Romano Why is the Netmundial in São Paulo, Brazil — the global multistakeholder meeting that is supposed to be determining the future of Internet governance after the federal government relinquishes the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions in 2015 — concerning itself with issues like […]

By Robert Romano “Nobody controls ICANN.” That was House Energy Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Rep. Greg Walden’s  (R-Oreg.) blunt assessment on April 2 of just who will be in charge of Internet governance after the U.S. cedes control over a contract with the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in September 2015. And that […]

By Robert Romano “It doesn’t really matter what I think.” That was the response of Commerce Department Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information Larry Strickling to a question by Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) about whether he opposed there being a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review on the Department’s turnover of Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions when its current contract with the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and […]

Click here to urge Congress to stop the international Internet giveaway! By Robert Romano   Another bombshell in the U.S. Department Commerce Department’s March 14 announcement that it intends to transition control over the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and the domain name system (DNS) to an as of yet unnamed international body: Commerce believes it can do so without any vote in Congress. As revealed in the Wall Street Journal by L. Gordon Crovitz : “a […]

  By Gov. Bobby Jindal It was an act generations from now will regret: The country that invented the Internet unilaterally decided to give it away — jeopardizing the freedoms of billions of citizens the world over in the process. Last month, the Obama Administration’s […]

By Robert Romano “Whatever you think our country’s done wrong, the United States has been by far the country most committed to keeping the Internet free and open and uninterrupted, and a lot of these people who say they want multistakeholder control over domain names and Internet […]

By Robert Romano On March 14, the Commerce Department’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) issued a press release stating its intent to “transition key Internet domain name functions to the global multistakeholder community” from its current contractor, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). The plan is to “transition the current role played by NTIA in the coordination of the Internet’s […]