Wednesday, September 19, 2007

ICANN

A icann is a non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for IP address allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions now performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities.

A domain name system is a general-purpose distributed, replicated, data query service chiefly used on Internet for translating hostnames into Internet addresses

A icann role is mostly for security purpose usaully.

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