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Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

By: Kevin Featherly
In: Encyclopedia of New Media
Edited by: Steve Jones
Subject:General Media, Communication & Cultural Studies
Keywords:arbitration; board members; Department of Commerce; domain; domain name; internet; trademarks

Controversial from its inception, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a private, nonprofit, non-governmental policymaking body chartered by the U.S. Commerce Department in 1998 to take over much of the U.S. government's formal oversight of the ...

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  Featherly, K. (2003). Internet corporation for assigned names and numbers. In S. Jones (Ed.), Encyclopedia of new media (pp. 253-255). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412950657.n129
  
  Featherly, Kevin. "Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers." In Encyclopedia of New Media, edited by Jones, Steve, 253-55. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412950657.n129.
  
  Featherly, K. 2003. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. In: Steve Jones Editor, 2003. Encyclopedia of New Media, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 253-255 Available at: <http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412950657.n129> [Accessed 31 Jul 2021].
  
  Featherly, Kevin. "Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers." Encyclopedia of New Media. Edited by Steve Jones. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2003, pp. 253-55. SAGE Knowledge. 31 Jul 2021, doi: http://www.doi.org/10.4135/9781412950657.n129.
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