ICANN Get No Satisfaction

A little guide for people who are afraid of the red, yellow, and ICANN changes.

So basically ICANN doesn't do very much, what it does is determine the standards for the internet domain name system.

So what is the internet domain name system?

The internet runs on IP addresses and what domain names do, is allow people to type and remember words instead of numbers.

So a domain name is automatically converted by an accounting system that the ICANN runs.

For instance, the domain name of Minds is minds.com and the domain name system simply looks up what the right IP address is to connect to when a user wants to connect to minds.com.

Now there are certain types of domains and different characters from different languages that can be used and ICANN determines what the best limits are for these domain names.

Now other countries will have more say in what the new standards will be instead of America dominating the decisions for settings the standards from silicon valley.

Nothing dramatic is happening here.

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