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Do you know what ICANN stands for or what ICANN does? Without googling it, could you honestly answer the poll please.

I kinda need to ask 100 about this and get their answers (yes or no) in order to do a report.

If you answered NO, why do you think you don't know about this entity even though is important? (besides the answer of I don't care, lol).

thanks a bunch guys!

I have no idea, I don't really care.

I have no idea either, is it country related perhaps?

I just looked it up on Google.
Never heard of it.
It really is important I think.

didn't know because i've never heard about it.

Didn't know about it either, but yeah they are important (now I saw marijnz0rs reply). Guess they stay in the shadows.

iPod application? lol
Don't have idea, but looks so important.
(Going to see the spoiler of majinz0r)

Knew it, had to make a seminar about the Internet so.

Should have known >__<

Is this something like iMac, iPod?
iCan lol, a high-tech can.

XMoshe wrote:Didn't know about it either

The same.

omier44 wrote:Is this something like iMac, iPod?
iCan lol, a high-tech can.

+1. though that too, but I didn't know that...
dang..

I only found out what it is a few months ago when I was googling an IP address and I ended up looking up ICANN. =p

I knew, soon to be IT consultant.

wow, I'm quite surprised at the poll results. I have asked other communities such as business communities and science communities. As expected, only a very small percent of the people asked knew about ICANN.

I kinda expected people from SRF know about ICANN though. We are a gaming community and of all communities I have asked, we are the one that use the computer the most, so I would have thought that somehow you guys were exposed to ICANN at some point before.

Basically, they job is related to ip adresses and world-wide-web domains. Their job is pretty important IMO. Why do you think so few people know about it (besides the fact that most people don't really care)?

PS: Maybe they should rename the company ICAN'T

pipigrande wrote:Why do you think so few people know about it (besides the fact that most people don't really care)?

PS: Maybe they should rename the company ICAN'T

Same reason why you probably don't know who invented most of the things you use in your daily activities? Same reason you probably have very little knowledge about certain things that some people are "experts" on?

You're sounding a bit pretentious don't you think?

Going from memory without using google, ICANN's registration ends soon and ownership of ICANN is going to the United Nations, what does that mean for the internet as we know it today?

lol i honestly cant remember,

i have freinds who work for multinational corporations and they recently have been discussing ICANN frequently talking about what changes the UN could impose, but im a 3rd party to these conversations so thats how i know about ICANN, through hearing freinds talking about it

but can't they just call themselves IPeepz instead of ICANN..

wtf.

I think most people just don't care.

Like inky said, I have no idea who invented the milk.

Oh -

OH! I DO!!!

Cows!

And the person that invented how to keep milk good longer is Pastury or something, who invented that if you boil it first, it stays good and keepable for a longer amount of time...

ROFL @Icealya

I thought it meant I Can do it. but i guess not :/

Icealya wrote:OH! I DO!!!

Cows!

And the person that invented how to keep milk good longer is Pastury or something, who invented that if you boil it first, it stays good and keepable for a longer amount of time...

Louis Pasteur. Thank you 8AM microbiology class.

Everytime I hear his name, I think of that weird bottle he used - the one with the long neck.