The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, better known as Icann, is a nonprofit organisation responsible for various Internet tasks, including managing top-level domains on the Internet and the allocation of Internet Protocol address space. It oversees highly bureaucratic and complex tasks but ensures the orderly management of the Internet.
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In this week’s extended episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Candice Jones talk to South African Mike Silber, a director at Icann, about how the organisation works and look at some of the more pressing issues it’s dealing with. These include the introduction of the .xxx generic top-level domain for adult websites and the looming switch to Internet Protocol version 6 and how it affects both SA and the rest of Africa.
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