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- abbreviation Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
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- initialism Acronym of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
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Owing to the role of states in the management of country codes, the role of a central manager of the DNS, such as ICANN, is naturally larger in relation to generic TLDs than it is in relation to country codes.
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ICANN is responsible for maintaining the various technical standards that make the Internet possible on a low level.
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Internet changes likely to impact international Web businesses 2009
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CFIT has essentially alleged that ICANN is a private standards-setting body akin to the NFPA.
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I wouldn't be surprised if 20 years from now, ICANN is privatized with arcane conversion rules that greatly benefit insiders and a trust to administer the proceeds of the conversion.
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ICANN is the midst of a consultation on a policy for the introduction of new top-level domains.
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To help people manage all their contact information online, ICANN is considering a. tel domain name.
Minicon: Day 1 2006
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"By taking this significant step forward in the transition to IPv6, ICANN is supporting the innovations through which the Internet evolves to meet the growing needs of a global economy," it says in a statement.
ICANN’s new IPv6 2004
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Stuart Lynn in Shanghai got up and announced to the world that ICANN is going to have three new top-level domains of the sponsored type.
Boing Boing: December 1, 2002 - December 7, 2002 Archives 2002
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ICANN is a big old mess and complicated as hell, but this is pretty fascinating stuff.
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Bob "Connectivity" Frankston has posted a great essay about the real-world ambiguity that ICANN is trying to shove into neat pigeonholes with its.
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