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First of all, let’s get to what it stands for: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
ICANN is a not-for-profit situated in California; established in 1998. |
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It is ICANN that rejected the proposal for the .xxx suffix for website owners who wished to have an extension of their own to promote their pornographic material.
This occurred in May of this year. |
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That it is the United States Government that is in charge of the contract that ICANN possesses. The Government renewed their contract until next year, BUT the contract is renews automatically until 2011.
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