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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/the_internet.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Did the US Just Give Away Control of the Internet?' data-article-id='1918'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='11896'>The U.S. government has officially transferred control of the internet address system to an international governing body.</span> <span data-start-time='11896' data-end-time='17792'>The change took place on October 1.</span> <span data-start-time='17792' data-end-time='26375'>What will this mean for internet businesses and users all over the world?</span> <span data-start-time='26375' data-end-time='37708'>To answer that question, it is necessary to consider the history of how the public internet developed.</span> <span data-start-time='37708' data-end-time='46292'>The public internet was still in early development in 1998.</span> <span data-start-time='46292' data-end-time='60021'>That year, the U.S. Department of Commerce took over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).</span> <span data-start-time='60021' data-end-time='69958'>This not-for-profit organization is located in Los Angeles, California.</span> <span data-start-time='69958' data-end-time='86875'>The U.S. government gave ICANN the authority to oversee domain names for websites and individual IP addresses for internet users.</span> <span data-start-time='86875' data-end-time='101042'>This responsibility included assigning the operators of high-level domains, such as .com and .uk.</span> <span data-start-time='101042' data-end-time='111229'>The contract between the Department of Commerce and ICANN ended on Saturday.</span> <span data-start-time='111229' data-end-time='116167'>This had been planned for a long time.</span> <span data-start-time='116167' data-end-time='132667'>Now a global internet community -- including governments, businesses, technical experts and members of civil society -- oversees ICANN.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/the_internet.jpg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' style='display:none;'><div class='vocabulary_question question-container' data-question-id=7330 data-hint-location='69958' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/what_does_ip_address_mean.m4a'>What does IP address mean?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='code made up of numbers and dots that identifies a particular computer'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/code_made_up_of_numbers_and_dots_that_identifies_a_particular_computer.m4a'><span>code made up of numbers and dots that identifies a particular computer</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/another_name_for_the_internet.m4a'><span>another name for the internet</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/another_name_for_a_hacker.m4a'><span>another name for a hacker</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/a_type_of_super_computer.m4a'><span>a type of super computer</span></div></div></div><div class='multiple_choice_question question-container' data-question-id=7331 data-hint-location='46292' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/who_previously_controlled_the_internet_address_system.m4a'>Who previously controlled the internet address system?</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='the U.S. Government'><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/google.m4a'><span>Google</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/the_us_government.m4a'><span>the U.S. Government</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/amazon.m4a'><span>Amazon</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/stanford_university.m4a'><span>Stanford University</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=7332 data-hint-location='37708' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/the__blank__was_still_in_early_development_in_1998.m4a'>The <span class='blank'>public internet </span> was still in early development in 1998.</div><div class='choices' data-correct-choice='public internet '><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/us_government.m4a'><span>U.S. Government</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/super_computer.m4a'><span>super computer</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/private_internet.m4a'><span>private internet</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/1419/public_internet_.m4a'><span>public internet </span></div></div></div><div class='question-buttons'><button class='skip-button'></button><button class='hint-button'></button><button class='speak-button'></button></div></div></div>

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