The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) is an internationally organized, non-profit corporation that has responsibility for
Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD)
and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system
management functions.

Originally, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and other entities performed these
services under U.S. Government contract. ICANN now performs the IANA function.

As aprivate-public partnership, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the

1)operational stability of the
2)Internet; to promoting competition;
3)to achieving broad representation of global Internet
4)communities; and
5)to developing policy appropriate to its mission through bottom-up, consensus-based processes.