ICANN or IANA
Stephane Bortzmeyer
bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Mon Apr 7 09:11:33 UTC 2008
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:18:14PM -0700,
uche <uraniumore235 at hotmail.com> wrote
a message of 7 lines which said:
> I'd like know who owns the Domain Name System ?
Probably no one, or, if there is someone, it is the US
Governement. Even its puppet ICANN cannot edit the root zone itself,
it is delegated to Verisign.
> I am not sure if it is ICANN or IANA ?
IANA is just the name for an ICANN activity, it is not a separate
body.
The Wikipedia article is a good start:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority
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