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I just wanted to know who "owns" the internet. I want to claim a domain (my name) which no one has bought or uses yet, but every time i look into it through google they say "buy this domain" or "this domain is not taken yet buy it!" who the hell has a monopoly over the internet isn't it supposed to be open territory... seriously it's equivalent to someone owning all of earth..... is there a way around it?? for me to get the website which i believe should be mine since its MY NAME??
Every device on the Internet has an IP address, which looks like this:
209.85.171.100
You and every website you visit has an IP address. You could visit any websites by using just the address. If you typed 209.85.171.100 into your address bar, you'd end up at Google.
Since those numbers are impossible to memorize and occasionally change, the domain name system was set up. The DNS translates a domain name into the proper IP address. When you type google.com into your browser, your browser asks ICANN's rootservers what the IP address for COM is. With that information, your browser then asks COM's nameservers what the IP address is for GOOGLE. Then you can connect to Google.
To translate your request into an IP address, it must pass through a number of servers. These servers require expensive maintenance, power, and bandwidth. That's why you have to pay a small fee to register a domain name.
You could start your own Domain Name System with your own rootservers, but you'd have to get every computer/browser/DNS manufacturer to include the IP address of your rootservers built in, so that the domain name lookup process could be started. It's not feasible.
More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
ICANN assigns IP addresses to every device in the world, they have ultimate authority over the DNS, and they assign AS numbers to ISPs (which ISPs need to use the BGP). ICANN is the closest thing to the "owner of the Internet".
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it is a monopoly!
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