Het NIC Competitors

To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a nonprofit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It helps promote competition and develop policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers. ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet.

Nominet is the custodian of the UK’s national domain name registry. Since 1996, we have underpinned critical national infrastructure, provided domain name services, and been a force for good in the UK’s digital economy and the global internet community. Through our work and the projects we support, we aim to create positive societal impact; transforming lives by shaping a safer, more interconnected and inclusive world.

APNIC is the Regional Internet address Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region. It is responsible for the distribution of Internet number resources to its member organizations across the Asia Pacific region, as well as maintaining a database of those organizations and the resources they use. Learn more about APNIC at www.apnic.net.