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| businesses      =  

| businesses      =  

| website        = [http://icann.org/ ICANN.org]

| website        = [http://icann.org/ ICANN.org]

| keypeople      = [[Peter Dengate Thrush]] Chair,<br>

| keypeople      = [[Rod Beckstrom]] CEO and President,<br>

[[Steve Crocker]] Vice Chair,<br>

[[Peter Dengate Thrush]] Chair of the Board,<br>

[[Rod Beckstrom]] CEO and President

[[Steve Crocker]] Vice Chair of the Board

 

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'''ICANN''' is an acronym for the '''Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers''', a global multi-stakeholder organization that was created and empowered through actions by the U.S. government and its [[DOC|Department of Commerce]].<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/general/icann-mou-25nov98.htm ICANN DOC MoU]</ref> It coordinates the Internet [[DNS]], [[IP]] addresses and [[AS]] numbers; which involves a continued management of these evolving systems and the protocols that underly them.

'''ICANN''' is an acronym for the '''Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers''', a global multi-stakeholder organization that was created and empowered through actions by the U.S. government and its [[DOC|Department of Commerce]].<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/general/icann-mou-25nov98.htm ICANN DOC MoU]</ref> It coordinates the Internet [[DNS]], [[IP]] addresses and [[AS]] numbers; which involves a continued management of these evolving systems and the protocols that underly them.