ICANN

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)



The Internet is tightly managed by Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or an IP address. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. Coordinates these
unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet.


ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet.