For those of you who have been in a digital fog, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) let loose the latest top level domain (TLD) — .xxx — this month. ICANN is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) California corporation that handles the administration of the TLDs on the internet (and makes millions doing so). A TLD is the word or string of letters immediately after the last dot in an internet address, e.g., “com” in “.com”. ICANN gets its authority from a so-called “Affirmation of Commitment” with the U.S. Department of Commerce, under the much-guarded international secret that the United States still controls most of the internet.
For the last four years, ICANN has been involved in a great debate on whether the internet needs new TLDs. (I reported on this in an earlier column in my series entitled the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Class of 2011″ — IPv6, recreational hacking, the cloud, and ICANN’s proposed TLD program).
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