ICANN stands for Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This organization was established on September 30th of 1998. The main responsibilities of the ICANN organization include the allocation and regulation of domain names, IP addresses. This organization is also responsible for the distribution of protocol port and parameter numbers. The ICANN organization also sets out to regulate and organize the ever-growing and changing DNS server system.

The Main Focus of ICANN
This particular organization seeks to improve all areas of the Internet. One of their main concerns is to help make the Internet more secure for users. Furthermore, they help promote stable Internet services which would be offered by reputable ICANN approved internet service providers, web hosting providers, and domain registrars. ICANN also works to make the use of the Internet as feasible as possible for people. They want to see this service used in every country of the world-that the Internet would easily be accessed from anywhere.

Other responsibilities that the ICANN organization has include that which pertains directly to domain registration. For example, this organization accredits qualified domain registrars, such as Go Daddy.com and a long list of others. This particular organization also handles different types of registration complaints, and it also carries out different domain registry agreements. This organization also has a number of other roles as well. For instance, ICANN has some influence in the pricing of domain registration services and the quality of services that each registrar offers. This organization is also especially useful when it comes to setting policy guidelines for Top Level Domains, such as .com, .biz, .org, .name, and .info.

The Flexibility of the ICANN Mission
The role of the ICANN organization has often changed since its creation. The rapidly-changing needs of both users of the Internet as well as those providing Internet services is part of the reason why ICANN’s roles chance from time to time. This organization has filled both non-technical and technical shoes since its start. For instance, they not only are responsible for gTLD services but they are also in charge of drawing up agreements pertaining to those TLD services. Another variation in the role this particular organization provides is in the example of DNS server monitoring. ICANN is responsible for 13 root name servers as well as the free Whois DNS name lookup. No doubt the focus of ICANN will continue to be revised from time to time. The U.S. government strongly supports this organization.