GO DADDY JOINS WHITE HOUSE CALL FOR STRONGER INTERNET SECURITY
Posted By CheapHostingChoice on June 9, 2009
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (June 4, 2009) – There’s nothing more important to most Americans than the nation’s security and a strong economy. The key to both – agree President Barack Obama and Go Daddy CEO and Founder Bob Parsons – is a safe and secure Internet. That’s why Go Daddy, a global leader in the Internet industry, testified today in front of a Congressional subcommittee about the critical need for a continued relationship between the U. S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
Go Daddy’s General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Christine N. Jones strongly urged the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet to renew, or at the very least extend, the Joint Partnership Agreement (JPA) between NTIA and ICANN. The JPA is currently scheduled to sunset September 30.
“ICANN is responsible for an important public trust,” testified Jones, noting significant concerns about ICANN’s lack of transparency and accountability. ICANN was created 12 years ago to administer a globally-acceptable Web address system. While Go Daddy acknowledges ICANN has made progress in achieving some of its original goals, the company feels there is much more to be accomplished before the U.S. Commerce Department recommends ICANN operate independent of NTIA oversight.
The security of the Internet was also a high priority at this hearing, as it is for the current White House administration. President Obama is keenly aware of the extraordinary dangers a compromised Internet would cause to national defense and the world’s economy. Those concerns led to his announcement last week of a “cyber-security czar” to help protect the nation’s crucial telecom infrastructure and information systems.
As the world’s largest domain name registrar and a leader globally in both Web site hosting and eCommerce, Go Daddy worries about many of the same issues. The company believes strongly that, without NTIA oversight, ICANN may be vulnerable to “capture by another government, international organization, or business that does not have a secure and stable Internet as its top priority,” declared Jones at today’s hearing.
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