CADNA Agrees on the Need to Reconsider ICANN's Role

WASHINGTON, May 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Coalition Against Domain
Name Abuse (CADNA) welcomes European Union Commissioner for Information
Society and Media Viviane Reding's comments on Internet governance and the
need to consider alternatives from the current set up with ICANN.
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Reding called for greater accountability of ICANN policies after ICANN is
released from its contract with the United States government during a hearing
before the Commission on Wednesday.

"CADNA agrees with Commissioner Reding about the need to review ICANN
governance and its role in setting Internet policy. However, CADNA is not
sure that creating a 'G12 for Internet Governance' is the best course of
action," said President of CADNA, Josh Bourne. "We need to take some time and
really take a hard look at how we should develop and implement policy for the
Internet."

"When US policy was developed in the late 1990s, the United States Government
thought that by September of 2009 ICANN would exist as a transparent and
reliable force for sensible and practical policies for the Internet,"
continued Bourne, "Unfortunately, this has proven not to be the case, and so
governments must rethink its stance towards ICANN in a thoughtful and
considered manner."

CADNA supports Senator John Rockefeller's (D-WV) Cybersecurity Act of 2009.
It begins a discussion about ICANN's role with today's Internet and hopefully
will lead to improvements in the governance of the Internet.

The Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA) is a 501(c)(6) nonprofit
organization dedicated to ending the systemic domain name abuses that plague
the Internet today. For more information, please visit www.cadna.org.

CONTACT: Yvette Wojciechowski of Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse,
+1-202-223-9355, press@cadna.org

SOURCE Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse

Yvette Wojciechowski of Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse, +1-202-223-9355,
press@cadna.org