ICANN

Summary

ICANN is a nonprofit organization^[1]. ICANN ranks in the top 0.55% of nonprofit_organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,303 views/month, #18 of 3,287).^[2]

Key Facts

• ICANN's field of work was information technology^[3].
• ICANN's field of work was access^[4].
• ICANN's field of work was censorship^[5].
• ICANN's field of work was democracy^[6].
• ICANN's field of work was digital divide^[7].
• ICANN's field of work was digital rights^[8].
• ICANN is in the country of United States^[9].
• ICANN's image is recorded as ICANN Headquarters.jpg^[10].
• ICANN's instance of is recorded as nonprofit organization^[11].
• ICANN's founder is recorded as United States Department of Commerce and Labor^[12].
• ICANN's logo image is recorded as Icann logo.svg^[13].
• ICANN's headquarters location is recorded as Los Angeles^[14].
• ICANN's chief executive officer is recorded as Göran Marby^[15].
• ICANN's ISNI is recorded as 0000000104165898^[16].
• ICANN's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 155828460^[17].
• ICANN's GND ID is recorded as 6099601-8^[18].
• ICANN's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as no99080285^[19].
• ICANN's Commons category is recorded as ICANN^[20].
• ICANN's Libraries Australia ID is recorded as 49285886^[21].
• ICANN's has part is recorded as Internet Assigned Numbers Authority^[22].
• ICANN's website account on is recorded as Youku^[23].
• +1998-09-18T00:00:00Z marks the founding of ICANN^[24].
• ICANN's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03y0d^[25].
• ICANN's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as vse20251268455^[26].
• ICANN's official website is recorded as https://icann.org^[27].

Body

Founding

ICANN's founder is recorded as United States Department of Commerce and Labor^[12]. +1998-09-18T00:00:00Z marks the founding of ICANN^[24].

Identity

ICANN's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers'}^[28]. ICANN's short name is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'ICANN'}^[29].

Leadership

ICANN's chief executive officer is recorded as Göran Marby^[15].

Operations

ICANN's headquarters location is recorded as Los Angeles^[14].

Industry

Fields of work include information technology^[3], a branch of science^[30]; access^[4]; censorship^[5]; democracy^[6], a form of government^[31]; digital divide^[7], a social inequality^[32]; and digital rights^[8], in Costa Rica^[33].

Why It Matters

ICANN ranks in the top 0.55% of nonprofit_organization entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,303 views/month, #18 of 3,287).^[2] ICANN has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] ICANN is known by 29 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]