"Who owns the Internet?"

@ysalwal (210)
India
September 10, 2006 11:29am CST
Is it you who is owning the internet? Please let me know.
4 responses
• India
20 Sep 06
No one actually owns the Internet, and no single person or organization controls the Internet in its entirety.The Internet relies on a physical infrastructure that connects networks to other networks. There are many organizations, corporations, governments, schools, private citizens and service providers that all own pieces of the infrastructure, but there is no one body that owns it all. There are, however, organizations that oversee and standardize what happens on the Internet and assign IP addresses and domain names, such as the National Science Foundation, the Internet Engineering Task Force, ICANN, InterNIC and the Internet Architecture Board.
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@deeeky (3667)
• Edinburgh, Scotland
15 Dec 06
In a way yes we all own a part of the internet. It is each and everyones computer that is connected as the hardware then the software called the world wide weblets us connect to each other whith all types of web sites interlinked.
• India
15 Dec 06
no i am not owining the intenet .
@lsen06 (4998)
• India
15 Dec 06
human civillisation as a whole is the owner.