abstract:The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN, ) is a nonprofit private organization headquartered in the Playa Vista section of Los Angeles, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U.S.
The United States Commerce Department has approved the new suffix after a recommendation from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (I-Cann) a newly-established private group which oversees the world's internet address system.