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social science subjects > politics and international relations > global studies > global communications, transportation, technology > Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers  

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  • Controversial from its inception, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a private, nonprofit, non-governmental policymaking body chartered by the U.S. Commerce Department in 1998 to take over much of the U.S. government's formal oversight of the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS). Through its Defense Department, the federal government funded and participated in most of the work that created the Internet, and when the Internet was still relatively small, it was also saddled with the network's address administration. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers]

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