ICANN

ICANN

Introduction
ICANN, standing for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers, is a non-profit organization formed in 1998 for the governing
and distribution of IP addresses and domain names.
Domain names are registered with private organizations and managed
by organizations like Nominet (www.nic.uk) in the UK or Internic
(www.internic.net) in the US.
ICANN distributes IP addresses to the three Regional Internet
Registries (RIR’s): ARIN, APNIC and RIPE.