ICANN or IANA

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:18:14PM -0700,
 uche <uraniumore235 at hotmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 7 lines which said:

> I'd like know who owns the Domain Name System ? 

Probably no one, or, if there is someone, it is the US
Governement. Even its puppet ICANN cannot edit the root zone itself,
it is delegated to Verisign.

> I am not sure if it is ICANN or IANA ?

IANA is just the name for an ICANN activity, it is not a separate
body.

The Wikipedia article is a good start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority