Govts, corporations vie to control Internet as US stops overseeing it

San Francisco

AS the United States steps back from overseeing the group entrusted to essentially run the Internet, states and corporations are grabbing for the reins.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) has gone from being behind the scenes tending to the task of managing website addresses to being centre stage in a play for power on the Internet.

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