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Who owns the Internet?

markiemark81 1201184736|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

When discussing who owns the Internet, some people may argue that an individual can actually own a part of the internet, called an “Intranet”.

In contrast to the Internet, where the network connection is open to the ‘general public’, Intranets and Extranets are classified as networks on which access is restricted to a closed group or collection of groups.

Gallo and Hancock (1) state that an Intranet is “The internal network implementation of traditional Internet applications within a company or an institution”. According to Irving (2) “The name ‘Intranet’ is sometimes used to describe an ‘internal’ internet based upon files that are open to users of the company’s LAN”.

In comparison, according to Irving (2), an extranet is essentially an institution’s “intranet shared among an organisations suppliers”, known as a business-to-business solution.

In addition, according to Wikipedia (3), “An intranet is a private computer network that uses Internet protocols and network connectivity to securely share part of an organization's information or operations with its employees.”

Furthermore intranets use the same concepts and technologies of the Internet such as clients and servers running on the Internet protocol suite are used to build an intranet. HTTP and other Internet protocols are commonly used as well, such as FTP.

Some functions and applications that can be used over the internet can also be used over the intranet including, web servers, email, file sharing, instant messaging and newsgroups.

An example of an intranet site is a Local Authority’s council portal for employees. Here employees can go to the council’s website and then access a private area through a secure URL that isn’t advertised. Through authentication, employees are then allowed access to internal data and other information.

Bibliography

(1) Gallo, M., and Hancock, W. Networking Explained. Woburn, Digital Press. 1999.
(2) Irving, P. Computer Networks. Exeter, Learning Matters Ltd. 2003.
(3) Wikipedia (online) (cited 15 January 2007) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Who actually decides on all the site names and how the names are divided on the internet?

Michael Atherton 1201428938|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Who actually decides on all the site names and how the names are divided on the internet?

A web address is made up of four parts: host name, sub-domain name, second level domain and finally a top level domain.
-Top level domain names include .org .com .gov. These are given out by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
-An organisation called Nominet gives out second level domain names such as .co or .ac.
-Sub-domain name examples include .ebay and .hmv which are given out by responsible organisations.
-Finally the host name is given out by the operating institution. The most common is www.

When putting this all together:

www.ebay.co.uk

host->subdomain->second-level-doman->top-level.domain

Nazim 1201530956|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

i dont think that any one can really say he or she owns the internet as the initial founders of the arparnet can be the one who can say they have some sort of control as they came up with the idea of the internet, with arparnet.

this is rather interesting:

What is this ball of colors? It is the North American Internet, or more specifically a map of just about every router on the North American backbone, (there are 134,855 of them for those who are counting). The colors represent who each router is registered to. Red is Verizon; blue AT&T; yellow Qwest; green is major backbone players like Level 3 and Sprint Nextel; black is the entire cable industry put together; and gray is everyone else, from small telecommunications companies to large international players who only have a small presence in the U.S. If you click on the map it will take you to much bigger version complete with labels that tell you the address of many of the routers.

Link:
http://advice.cio.com/node/209

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