WHO's plan to police health websites rejected

The body that approves so called “top level” domain names for the internet last week rejected a plan that would have made the World Health Organization (WHO) one of the most powerful players on the world wide web.

The WHO wanted to establish a “dot health” domain to guide internet users to “reliable” health sites. Websites with the dot health (.health) suffix would have carried the WHO's seal of approval, giving the WHO a formidable policing role—and unprecedented …