ICANN - Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
 

·         The U.S. Department of Commerce created ICANN, which established a mandatory dispute resolution policy for administering domain name conflicts.

·         ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers.

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