I. Introduction
No matter how it is emphasized, it may be difficult to describe the importance of the Internet in our daily lives. It is very important to provide a secure service to connect domain names to the numeric computer identifiers, such as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, for a stable internet exploration environment. The service, coordinating (i) the allocation of identifiers for the Internet, (ii) the operation of the nameservers, and (iii) policy development on the domain name system (DNS) has been managed in a central manner by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). [1] Due to its significant effects on the global society, ICANN, a Californian nonprofit public-benefit corporation, has been watched since its creation in 1998. [2] However, it has still been controversial: Is ICANN accountable and transparent enough to manage the global DNS?
II. Domain Name System (DNS) in the Internet
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