{"id":24222,"date":"2015-07-01T18:01:34","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T10:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/?p=24222"},"modified":"2019-07-01T21:19:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T13:19:22","slug":"organisations-that-run-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/organisations-that-run-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Organizations That Secretly Run The Internet [Infographic]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet is a connected network of billions of devices and people, and has <strong>no single central governing body<\/strong> to control what goes on in this vast network. But it does have a few organizations that <strong>help it operate smoothly<\/strong>, for instance ICANN, which is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. The non-profit is basically the reason we know who or where we are on the Internet \u2013 it puts everyone in their \u201cplace\u201d, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p>In this infographic by <strong>WhoIsHostingThis<\/strong>, we take a look at ICANN and 5 other organizations, (most of which you probably don\u2019t know) that are secretly running the Internet \u2013 and no, Google isn\u2019t one of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"note\"><strong>Recommended Reading:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hongkiat.com\/blog\/40-people-who-changed-the-internet\/\">40 People Who Changed the Internet<\/a><\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.hongkiat.com\/uploads\/organisations-that-run-the-internet\/internet-organization.jpg\" alt=\"internet organization infogragraphic\" width=\"720\" height=\"7670\"><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet is a connected network of billions of devices and people, and has no single central governing body to control what goes on in this vast network. But it does have a few organizations that help it operate smoothly, for instance ICANN, which is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. 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