Battleangel

Gee, what a surprise.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said Tuesday that it had reached a new agreement with the U.S. Department of Commerce that would technically keep the group under American control through 2011.

U.S. government officials have repeatedly said they would relinquish control over ICANN, even going as far as holding hearings on the subject of privatization. But it now appears that government control of the body that governs the Internet’s domain name servers would last into the foreseeable future.

And guess what, they lied to buy time.