ICANN was created through a Memorandum of Understanding between the US Department of Commerce and ICANN to transition management of the Domain Name System from the US government to the global internet community. ICANN is a privately held non-profit that regulates top-level domains and domains through a bottom-up policy process involving all necessary stakeholders. ICANN has three main roles - managing generic top-level domains through the GNSO, managing IP addresses through the ASO, and managing country-code top-level domains through the ccNSO.

3. ICANN
Internet Corporation ICANN was created
for Assigned Names through a
and Numbers Memorandum of
Privately held and is Understanding (MoU)
a non-profit between the U.S.
Department of
• managed by a Commerce and
16-member Board of ICANN to transition
Directors
management of the
Works closely with Domain Name
the Government, System (DNS) from
after it split from the the U.S. government
government to the global
community.

4. INTERNET
GOVERNANCE
ICANN does not create or develop internet policy. Rather,
policy is created through a bottom-up, transparent process
involving all necessary constituencies and stakeholders in
the Internet Community
Policy begins via supporting agencies
• GNSO, ASO, ccNSO
Regulate TLD and domains

5. ICANN: 3 IN 1
Generic Names
Supporting Organization
(GNSO)
•policy making on generic top-
level domains (gTLDs)
Country Code
Address Supporting Names Supporting
Organization (ASO) Organization
(ccNSO)
•policy making on IP
addresses •policy making on
country-code top-level
domains

7. SOURCES
http://studyabroad.universiablogs.net/files/the-end.jpg
http://archive.icann.org/en/factsheets/fact-sheet.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5FytTp_dTw