ICANN handover set for June 2016

The handover of control of the web's domain name system may not occur until the end of June 2016, according to the head of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the organisation charged with overseeing web management. ICANN, which manages internet domain names through the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), is currently overseen by the US, but this responsibility will soon fall into the hands of the global internet community. Fadi Chehadé, ICANN’s outgoing head, previously said the…