Trump commerce pick may set panel of experts to investigate unwinding IANA transition

David Redl, the assistant Commerce secretary for communications and information, reportedly told GOP lawmakers before he was confirmed that he would convene a panel to look at unwinding the Obama administration’s move to international control of the internet. According to a Politico report, Redl told Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah) in a letter …

2014 Hacked ICANN data still sells at a black market premium, years after breach

A blog called Cyberscoop reports that Three years after hackers used a spearphishing attack to successfully gain access to internal data at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the data is still being passed around and sold on black markets for $300, complete with claims that it’s never been leaked before. The 2014 …

ICANN Spent $32 million on IANA transition

ICANN Spent a whooping $32 million on the IANA transition process for the period March 2014 to December 2016 , this is according to a presentation released last week. $15 Million went to “External Legal Advice”, $8.3 million went to third-party services, that included lobbying, puclic relattions and translation. In the period from July 2014 up …

Senate Judiciary Subcomm. Hearing on Implications of IANA Transition

A Ted Cruz led committee will today Wednesday, September 14th hold a hearing on “Protecting Internet Freedom: Implications of Ending U.S. Oversight of the Internet”. This follows the plans to complete IANA Stewardship Transition steps on October 1, 2016. This is unless House and Senate Republicans are successful in their calls to delay the transition …

ALG experts says there is no proof NTIA performed antitrust analysis on IANA transition

Rick Manning has released a statement on behalf of Americans for Limited Government  that National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)  performed no antitrust analysis even as it proceeded with the process to create an independent body to take over IANA oversight responsibilities that will cede the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions to the Internet …

Sens. Grassley & Goodlatte Pile Pressure against IANA Transition say it’s Premature

The US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (Va.) sent a letter to the Commerce Department, asking a series of pointed questions. The letter comes as the administration nears its planned date to give up its oversight of the internet domain name system, which helps pair up long strings of …