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Who Runs the Internet? (Infographic)

According to ICANN, no one person, company, organization or government runs the Internet -- and the same goes for its governance.

According to an infographic from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), no one person, company, organization or government runs the Internet -- it is "a globally distributed computer network comprised of many voluntarily interconnected autonomous networks." 

And its governance is run in a similar fashion.

To get a feel for who's involved in Internet operations and how such operations work, check out the infographic below (click to enlarge). 

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