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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") - http://www.icann.org/
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the private sector, non-profit corporation created in 1998 to assume responsibility for IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions. |
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Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ("IANA") - http://www.iana.org/
In conjunction with ICANN, IANA coordinates ccTLD and root server issues and handles procotol number assignment. |
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Generic Names Supporting Organization ("GNSO") - http://gnso.icann.org/
The ICANN Supporting Organization responsible for developing policy for the domain name system. |
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Address Supporting Organization ("ASO") - http://aso.icann.org/
The ICANN Supporting Organization responsible for reviewing and developing recommendations on IP address policy. |
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World Wide Alliance of Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) - http://www.wwtld.org/
The primary website of the country-code top-level domain managers and registries that participate in the activities of ICANN. Contains links to the five regional ccTLDs organizations (AFTLD, APTLD, CENTR, LACTLD, and NATLD). |