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Who Runs the Internet? (Infographic)


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March 8, 2013 By

According to an infographic from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), no one person, company, organization or government runs the Internet -- it is "a globally distributed computer network comprised of many voluntarily interconnected autonomous networks." 

And its governance is run in a similar fashion.

To get a feel for who's involved in Internet operations and how such operations work, check out the infographic below (click to enlarge). 

 


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