ICANN
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| Type: | Private, Non-Profit |
| Industry: | Internet Protocol Management |
| Founded: | 1998 |
| Headquarters: | 4676 Admiralty Way # 330, Marina del Rey, CA |
| Country: | International, USA |
| Employees: | 140 employees |
| Revenue: | 63.6 million (2010) |
| Website: | ICANN.org |
| Key People | |
| Peter Dengate Thrush Chair, Steve Crocker Vice Chair, | |
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 Department of Commerce.[1] 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.
While ICANN has its roots in the U.S. government, it is now, and continues to strive to be, a community driven, international organization. Their management of an interoperable Internet covers 180 million domain names, the allocation of more than 4 billion network addresses, and the support of a trillion odd DNS look-ups everyday across 240 countries.[2]
ICANN collaborates with companies, individuals, and governments to ensure the continued success of the Internet. It holds meetings three times a year, switching the international location for each meeting; one of these serves as the annual general meeting when the new ICANN board members take their seats.[3]