The US government is opposed to proposals for the International Telecommunications Union to have a veto over ICANN board decisions, said Larry Strickling at the welcome ceremony for the ICANN Silicon Valley-San Francisco meeting on Monday. “The United States is most assuredly opposed to establishing a governance structure for the Internet that would be managed and controlled by nation states,” said Strickling, the Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and Administrator, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) at the U.S. Department of Commerce, in one of several suggestions in his address at the ceremony

Ido Hadari, current COO and soon to be CEO of Commtouch. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Messaging and Web security provider firm Commtouch ( www.commtouch.com ) announced on Tuesday that CEO and chairman of the board Gideon Mantel will retire on January 1, 2011.

Ido Hadari, current COO and soon to be CEO of Commtouch. (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Messaging and Web security provider firm Commtouch ( www.commtouch.com ) announced on Tuesday that CEO and chairman of the board Gideon Mantel will retire on January 1, 2011

ICANN today voted to delay consideration of the .XXX Top Level Domain (TLD) in its board meeting at their 37th meeting held this week in Nairobi, Kenya. Among other decisions, the board also decided that there will be no co-ownership between registries and registrars for new gTLDs.