The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit agency responsible for, well, assigning names (domain names ) to numbers (IP addresses).  In today’s thoroughly commercialized internet, this involves fundamental issues of both Intellectual Property and Internet Protocols.

In case you haven’t heard, they have some big plans to change the way the domain name system (and by extension, the web) works - starting next year.

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