Why “ICANN” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
ICANN making it rain.
by commandersaki · Oct 12, 2026
It's literally just a blatant favour to Mark Zuckerberg in exchange for ?????? Here, let me prove it: Meta is the only one that has used that term in the past, going back to the…
by input_sh · Oct 9, 2026
Or ICANN could just do the right thing and reserve .lan as well, which is so much more intuitive and memorable.
by lxgr · Oct 9, 2026
The same thing happened to AVM recently, who make a popular (in Germany) series of home routers that assign <hostname>.fritz.box hostnames to devices by default. `ssh foo.fritz.…
by lxgr · Oct 9, 2026
It's a default on OpenWRT and Ubiquiti devices. I don't think consumers should be blamed nor suffer because they didn't know their pricey Ubiquiti router was using a de facto bu…
by queenkjuul · Oct 9, 2026
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a global multistakeholder group and nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States, responsible for coordinating the maintenance and procedures of several databases related to the namespaces and numerical spaces of the Internet, while also ensuring the Internet's smooth, secure, and stable operation. ICANN performs the actual technical maintenance (work) of the Central Internet Address pools and DNS root zone registries pursuant to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) function contract. The contract regarding the IANA stewardship functions between ICANN and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) of the United States Department of Commerce ended on October 1, 2016, formally transitioning the functions to the global multistakeholder community. Read more on Wikipedia