ICANN Looks at DNS Policy

Information Today, Vol. 24, No. 8, p. 17, September 2007

3 Pages Posted: 10 Jul 2010

Date Written: September 2007

Abstract

One of the more interesting facets of the Internet is that no one person, corporation, government, or group runs it as a whole. Different organizations have responsibility for setting and managing technical standards, Internet architecture, and the domain name system. And of course, the Internet’s information resources are provided by thousands of unique content suppliers.

The absence of a single entity has not seemed to limit the Internet - as shown by its phenomenal growth over the last 10 years. However, legal and policy questions, along with questions about the future of the Internet, are often challenged by the Internet’s fluid governance structure.

ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, is one of the larger and more formal operations involved in Internet governance. It was created in 1998 to provide central coordination of much of the Internet’s domain name system (DNS), including accrediting of DNS registrars, and determining top level domains.

Keywords: information industry, lawsuits, content suppliers, Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, ICANN, domain name system, DNC, Internet governance, user confusion, non-Latin character domains

Suggested Citation

Pike, George H., ICANN Looks at DNS Policy (September 2007). Information Today, Vol. 24, No. 8, p. 17, September 2007, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1636397

George H. Pike (Contact Author)

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law ( email )

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