According to ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, nobody but nobody controls the Internet. Not China, not Comcast, not your IT guy, not Clippy, nobody. The Final Boss of the Internet does not exist. But there does exist a nonprofit that governs Web addresses, and that’s Dengate Thrush’s organization, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN makes sure there’s some degree of rhyme and reason to the domain names that you see in the URL bar at the top of your browser.
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ICANN Cuts the Apron Strings
Posted by: Paul Hartsock October 2, 2009 09:45 AMAccording to ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush, nobody but nobody controls the Internet. Not China, not Comcast, not your IT guy, not Clippy, nobody. The Final Boss of the Internet does not exist. But there does exist a nonprofit that governs Web addresses, and that’s Dengate Thrush’s organization, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ICANN makes sure there’s some degree of rhyme and reason to the domain names that you see in the URL bar at the top of your browser.