ICANN
Britishacronym
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Likewise, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, is an organization that has successfully promoted discussion and decision-making among diverse internet actors, especially by leveraging its multistakeholder governance model.
From Slate
Up until 2016, for instance, the U.S. government held the power to veto some of ICANN’s decisions about the internet under the contracts it issued to the organization.
From Slate
Not long after, the Commerce Department announced that it was taking steps to stop administering ICANN’s contract in order to make the organization more fully independent of the US government and in 2016 the last contract officially ended.
From Slate
A favorite Russian target is a group of experts known as ICANN, which oversees the internet’s system of domain names.
From Washington Post
That request was denied by DNS overseer ICANN, which warned a revocation could have “devastating and permanent effects on the trust and utility of this global system.”
From The Verge
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