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| | ICANN | Announcement | 16 November 2000 |
 | | The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a technical coordination body for the Internet. |
 | | Created in October 1998 by a broad coalition of the Internet’s business, technical, academic, and user communities, ICANN is assuming responsibility for a set of technical functions previously performed under U.S. government contract by IANA and other groups. |
 | | As a non-profit, private-sector corporation, ICANN is dedicated to preserving the operational stability of the Internet; to promoting competition; to achieving broad representation of global Internet communities; and to developing policy through private-sector, bottom-up, consensus-based means. |
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