Obama-appointed judge lets Internet giveaway proceed
Refuses request from states to hold off on transfer
Published: 13 hours ago
A federal judge in Texas who was appointed by Barack Obama, George C. Hanks Jr., on Friday refused to delay the president’s planned giveaway of U.S. oversight of a key piece of the Internet, setting up the transfer when a critical contract expires heading into the weekend.
The states of Arizona, Nevada, Oklahoma and Texas had sued to block the U.S. from giving up oversight of the non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which maintains databases for Internet domain names, the Internet’s phone book.
At the tech site Arstechnica, the concerns about the loss of U.S. control were discounted.
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