Posted by: geophil9 on: December 5, 2009
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is directly responsible for the operations of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which is tasked to oversee the allocation of duties pertaining to the management of the bulk of top level domains to organizations deemed to be professional in their conduct – the IANA manages [...]
Posted by: geophil9 on: December 5, 2009
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigns domain identifiers such as the country code top level domain (ccTLD) which are set aside for individual national territories, or country. IANA’s duties are not limited to the creation and delegation of identifiers, they also select relevant trustees for the ccTLD to whom the responsibility of operational administration [...]