Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

(body, networking)

(ICANN) The non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions now performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities.

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ICANN

(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association incorporated in the U.S. in 1998. ICANN coordinates all the Internet's naming, addressing and protocol systems, and it accredits domain name registrars. For a list of more than a thousand active registrars worldwide, visit www.icann.org/en/registrars/accredited-list.html. For a list of top-level domain names, such as .com and .net, see Internet domain name.

IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)
IANA is the ICANN operating unit that maintains the official repositories of data and function definitions pertaining to domains, addressing and protocols (see IANA). See IGF and how to register a domain name.

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SEOUL:The body in charge of assigning the world's Internet users their online addresses on Friday said it had agreed to allow the use of any of the world's scripts, no longer just the Latin alphabet.AaThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which approved the change at a meeting in Seoul, said in a statement it could lead to a dramatic rise in the number of Internet users.Aa

Latin alphabet to lose domain on Internet addresses

All of them are waving their cutlasses in outrage that the United States is refusing (for now) to relinquish its supervisory role over the private-sector, not-for-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

The UN's desire to control the Internet: UN pirates sailed into Tunis this November 16-18, looking to take the helm of Internet supervision from U.S. hands

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, created the '.pro' suffix in 2000 for professionals.

Loophole in Internet domain name

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is once again weighing the creation of a dot-travel domain similar to dot-com or dot-edu.

Efforts continue to seek approval for dot-travel domain

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, www.icann.org) added .pro to the existing list of approved domain names, such as .com, .org, .gov and .edu, and designated RegistryPro (www.registrypro.com) as the operator for the registry.

Beginning July 1, accountants and other professionals who had registered a trademark or service mark before September 30, 2002, can secure a .pro domain name, or Internet address suffix, that exactly matches their registered mark. (Technology)

'The board voted to go with ISOC,' said Mary Hewitt, spokeswoman for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, which chose the Internet Society after a heated, months-long competition that drew bids from 11 different groups.

e-Business: Net grouping now controls '.org' domain

Icann, or the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has abolished the fair and democratic system in favour of a radical dictatorship of businessmen.

Amy's i: ICANN COUP IS A REAL DOTCON

courts or by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) cyber-arbitration system.

Domain Name Disputes. (Internet)

Agreement to begin offering the new domain through NCBA's subsidiary, DotCooperation LLC, has been reached by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

.coop Internet domain to launch Jan. 30. (Newsline)

The 19-member Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees the Internet's naming system, recently approved additional suffixes -- .biz, .info, .pro, .name, .museum, .aero and .coop -- to help ease the overcrowding in the Internet naming space.

THE DOMAIN GAME

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has just started to solve this by releasing seven new suffixes starting with .info.

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