There are four positions on a polo team, with players assigned numbers worn on their shirts.
For those that never added a vanity URL, Facebook has assigned numbers to serve as your email account name.
Part of this role involves overseeing the work of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Iana), which does the technical work required to maintain the net's address books.
Currently the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has a contract from the U.S. government to maintain the Internet infrastructure, but the U.S. government wants to hand that responsibility off to a nongovernmental body that will have international representation.
However, the formality of the power structure was thrown into stark relief when the US government under George W Bush intervened directly on the subject of .xxx domain names, and then moved responsibility for certain naming from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (Iana) to Icann.
In September, a three-year agreement was reached giving the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the non-profit body formed in 1998 and assigned oversight responsibility on behalf of the U.S., greater autonomy.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers can be reached at www.icann.org.
Not nearly filling Postel's shoes, we have the new Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN.
According to a spokeswoman at The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers in Marina del Ray, Calif.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (Icann) initial application for contract renewal was rejected the US Department of Commerce.
Plaid Cymru are supporting the application by Nominet to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), for the two top-level domains.
The U.S. government proposed a more open, decentralized system, to be organized by the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers said "a possible glitch" had allowed a limited number of users to view each other's details.
They'd like names and numbers assigned much like they are now, without regard for the real world, because everything about the Internet is, man, like, totally without precedent.
Recently, the company renewed its agreement with ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) which extends its rights over the domain names for another six years.
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The U.S. has sought to turn administration of the Internet over to a new regime, which included creation of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers last year.
The researchers, for example, reported that they needed 10 or fewer tries to predict all nine digits for 1 out of 20 Social Security numbers assigned in Delaware in 1996.
Over the weekend, I read with some interest about how the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is entertaining applications by individual corporations to control new top-level domain names.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann, a nonprofit that regulates the Internet, last week disclosed the identities of the more than 800 applicants for new right-of-the-dot names.
Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is creating hundreds of other top-level domains as part of a separate expansion set to create addresses ending in .home, .shop and .play.
The suffixes are some of the 1, 927 top-level domain names currently being considered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization in charge of managing Internet naming standards.
Most are based abroad, and the only leverage the police can get is by approaching Icann (Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers), the organisation that registers all website addresses and owners.
VeriSign recently renewed its contract with the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) to serve as the exclusive provider for .net domain names (see: ICANN Renewal Bumps VeriSign Shares Higher).
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.
Icann (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) revealed in June that it had received 1, 930 requests for gTLD "strings" which could be used as an alternative to .com, .org or other current options.
Even Western governments, which usually favour the multi-stakeholder system, would like to rein in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), whose board decides which top-level domains to add (such as .com or .biz).
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) last week announced that five companies, including America Online, will participate in a test bed for a new domain name registration system designed to end Network Solutions, Inc.
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These middlemen pay a fixed fee to VeriSign, which controls the domain industry under the auspices of an international body called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which reports to the U.S. Department of Commerce.
In about three months, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will open up the application process for new top-level domains (TLDs), allowing companies and other organizations alike to apply to obtain their own domain extensions.
These middlemen pay a fixed fee to Verisign, which controls the domain industry under the auspices of an international body called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (which, oddly enough, reports to the U.S. Department of Commerce).
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