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Published Date: May 4, 2001
Company Name: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Address: 4676 Admirality Way, Ste. 330
Marina del Rey, Calif. 90292
Main Telephone
Number: 310/823-9358
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) http://www.icann.org/
Chief Executive
Officer: Louis Touton
Chief Financial
Officer: Andrew McLaughlin
Investor Relations
Contact: Diane Schroeder
Business number: 310/823-9358
E-mail address: Schroeder@icann.org
Industry: Nonprofit agency
Company description: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers See ICANN. (body, networking) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - (ICANN) The non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system (ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, www.icann.org) A non-profit, international association founded in 1998 and incorporated in the U.S. It is the successor to IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), which manages Internet addresses, domain names and the huge number ) is a technical coordination body for the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . Created in October October: see month. 1998 by a broad coalition of the Internet's business, technical, academic, and user communities, ICANN is assuming responsibility for a set of technical functions previously performed under U.S. government contract by IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, www.iana.org) An operating unit of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) that serves as a registry for both IP addresses and for a variety of protocol numbers. IANA is not an ISP and does not provide any network services. and other groups. |
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