The U.S. Government Accountability Office has said that the internet domain name system is unlikely to be government property. This comes just ahead of the planned transfer by month-end of the oversight of key technical functions supporting the internet, including the domain name system, to an independent multistakeholder body.

“It is unlikely that either the authoritative root zone file — the public ‘address book’ for the top level of the Internet domain name system — or the Internet domain name system as a whole” is U.S. government property, the GAO said in a legal opinion provided to legislators.

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