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"The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers"
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"The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers" "The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a coalition of the Internet business, technical, non-commercial, and academic communities with broad support from the global Internet community" (www.icann.org). It is a non-profit corporation that was formed to "assume responsibility for the IP (Internet Protocol) address space allocations, protocols for parameter assignments, domain name systems management, and root server systems from the United States Government; these functions were previously management functions performed by U. S. Government contracts by IANA and other entities" (www.icann.org). ICANN also has the responsibility of coordinating certain Internet technical functions. ICANN is incorporated and headquartered in California. The Corporation was formed by the Department of Commerce. It has a Board of Directors, elected in part by the global membership of individual members of the Internet community and in party by supporting organization representing the business, technical non-commercial...
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