With the reach of the Internet having extended to the geopolitical dominion, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced the appointment of a new President and CEO - the former director of US National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC), Rod Beckstrom.

The director of the US Homeland Security's National Cybersecurity Center, Rod Beckstrom resigned on Friday, because of what he described "a power grab by the National Security Agency". Beckstrom, in his resignation letter, harshly criticized NSA for playing undue role in countering threats to the nation's computer systems.