Who Owns the Internet?
By Vangie Beal
No one actually owns the
Internet, and no
single person or organization controls the Internet in its entirety.
No one actually owns
the Internet, and no single person or organization controls the Internet in its
entirety. The Internet is more of a concept than an actual tangible entity, and
it relies on a physical infrastructure that connects networks to other networks.
Owning Pieces of Infrastructure
There are many
organizations, corporations, governments, schools, private citizens and service
providers that all own pieces of the infrastructure, but there is no one body
that owns it all. There are, however, organizations that oversee and
standardize what happens on the Internet and assign IP addresses and domain
names, such as the National Science Foundation, the Internet Engineering Task
Force, ICANN, InterNIC and the Internet Architecture Board.
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