The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as ICANN, is a non-profit organization which was founded on September 18th, 1998. Its slogan is “One world, one Internet.” The ICANN’s current President and CEO is Mr. Goran Marby and its Chair of the Board is Mr. Steve Crocker. It is located in Los Angeles, California and its headquarters is in the Playa Vista neighborhood of Los Angeles. ICANN’s main focus is the coordination of the maintenance and the procedures of several databases related to the name spaces of the Internet and thereby making sure of the network’s stability and to secure the operation. History Before this corporation was established, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority’s (IANA) function of administering the registries of Internet Protocol identifiers was completed by a computer science researcher, Jon Postel. With the growth and global expansion of the Internet, the United States department of Commerce saw the need and established a new organization to perform the IANA’s function. As a result of this, an agency of the United States Department of Commerce, The National Telecommunications and Information Administration, put forward a proposal to improve the technical management of the Internet names and addresses. This proposed rule-making or the “Green Paper” proposed many actions that could privatize the management of Internet names and addresses in such a manner that it allowed for the development of competition and also facilitated global participation in the management of the Internet at the same time.