{"id":2518,"date":"2016-10-04T22:15:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T22:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.santarosawebsite.com\/websitedesign\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2016-10-04T22:21:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T22:21:47","slug":"biggest-change-in-domain-name-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/biggest-change-in-domain-name-registration\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest change in domain name registration"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past few days, you may have heard statements such as “The US government gave up the rights to the Internet on October 1st”. Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration but there is a real story behind it. We will be brief today and make it simple.<\/p>\n

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  1. There is a non-profit organization called ICANN. If you own a domain name, you would have received occasional notices from them to update your ownership information for your domain name(s).<\/li>\n
  2. ICANN stands for Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. Its primary function is to manage domain names around the world.<\/li>\n
  3. Until October 1st, 2016, the U.S. government (specifically the Federal National Telecommunications and Information Administration) had control over ICANN and oversaw its activities, its protocols, and more.<\/li>\n
  4. This control of the U.S.A. over ICANN was established in a contractual agreement almost two decades ago and expired on 10-01-2016.<\/li>\n
  5. That means that now the U.S. government does not have any say in ICANN’s governing and that ICANN now solely answer to its stakeholders who are a mixed of experts, advisors, and industry entities from various countries.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This is very big news in the Internet community but will have no effect on your domain name ownership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In the past few days, you may have heard statements such as “The US government gave up the rights to the Internet on October 1st”. Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration but there is a real story behind it. We will be brief today and make it simple. There is a non-profit organization […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[278],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2521,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2518\/revisions\/2521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesswebsitecenter.com\/websitedesign\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}