I am afraid that you have misunderstood ICANN’s role when it comes to country code top-level domains.

Both ICANN and the US government recognise that every country of the world has sovereignty over its local Internet and that is a very important principle to hold to.

We possess no hold or control over any ccTLD, although in order to make the Internet one coherent whole, many countries have reciprocal arrangements with ICANN where ICANN recognises them and they recognise ICANN and we both agree how to work together to maintain one global interoperable Internet.

You can see all those agreement graphically here: http://www.icann.org/maps/cctld-agreements.htm

Kieren McCarthy
General manager of public participation, ICANN

As ccTLD control was transferred away from the United States I have the greatest concern about the US ceding control in particular to the Brazilian government’s CGI (Comite Gestor da Internet) who is not being accountable to disastrous results down the road for everyone other than the favored few which remain in control in that case obviously CGI.

In this regard, the current ICANN proposal for Brazil’s ccTLD handling leaves far too much to the imagination, both in terms of how much authority the Brazilian Internet using public is having and in terms of whether the inner working of CGI will be open for public inspection, review, and criticism when signs of corruption and abuse is becoming greater.

The way I see it, I really hope ICANN is not encouraging Brazil to continue violating US laws and US public policies using monopoly as a tool to succeed preventing the private sector from competing and succeed as well which could make ICANN accountable for these actions even when ccTLD .br is under US control.

Take for example your google.com.br in Brazil. The results of a search shows the state of Paraná as being the state of Paraíba promoting a result error confusing the researcher specially young students.

Please see for yourself at:

http://www.google.com/Top/World/Português/Regional/América_do_Sul/Brasil/Estados/Paraíba/

When will you & ICANN help Brazilian intrapreneurs and ISP’s like myself making Internet in Brazil more competitive and have the right to register ccTLD and compete for the registration to break the vicious cicle of monopoly dictated by registro.br for the past 10 years?

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Kieren