Who runs the internet???

Answer 1

You don't have to pay for it, therefore it is not owned by anyone. I know if I owned it, you'd have to pay a huge hourly rate, plus money per word typed while connected. That would make me richer the Bill Gates in a day.

Answer 2

You know, that really is a very good question. The answer is hard to explain, however.

In some very real sense, it runs itself. Computers can do a lot, once you tell them how. They may be really stupid -- all they know is ones and zeros, after all -- but they are fast. And they learn fast. You tell him once, boy, he gets the idea right away. Well, if you tell him correctly, anyway.

In another sense, the Internet is run by the major elements of the structure. The browsers (Internet Explorer, Mozilli Firefox, etc.) play a large role. The service providers like Yahoo! run it to the extent that they make a great portal effect: most of what I do on the Internet comes through Yahoo!

In yet another sense, everyone who ever designed a web page, wrote a hyperlink, or even just wrote a blog or answered a question here -- we all run the Internet. The Internet is the structure of what we are doing; we provide the content all day and all night, millions of us.

Answer 3

ISP - Internet Service Provider Runs Internet

Answer 4

The ISPs own the parts of the internet that they keep online.

The large Internet backbone providers own the most so maybe they could be said to own it - UUnet (now a division of Verizon), British Telecom, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, France Télécom, BSNL, HE.NET, Teleglobe, Qwest, Level 3 Communications, and SAVVIS.

Any computer that connects to the internet automatically becomes a part of it for that time and if its your computer you could be said to own that tiny part of the internet.

So the internet is owned by the Backbone Providers, the ISPs, and the people.

Answer 5

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the authority that coordinates the assignment of unique identifiers on the Internet, including domain names, Internet protocol addresses, and protocol port and parameter numbers. A globally unified namespace (i.e., a system of names in which there is one and only one holder of each name) is essential for the Internet to function. ICANN is headquartered in Marina del Rey, California, but is overseen by an international board of directors drawn from across the Internet technical, business, academic, and non-commercial communities. The US government continues to have the primary role in approving changes to the root zone file that lies at the heart of the domain name system. Because the Internet is a distributed network comprising many voluntarily interconnected networks, the Internet, as such, has no governing body. ICANN's role in coordinating the assignment of unique identifiers distinguishes it as perhaps the only central coordinating body on the global Internet, but the scope of its authority extends only to the Internet's systems of domain names, Internet protocol addresses, and protocol port and parameter numbers.

Answer 6

If you and you're friend is connected, then you both can make all the internet service is provided.

Thinks both of you connect to others, the to others.

Difference is only on how big is the size of computer ability.

Sure it's more complicated then this..

Answer 7

No one runs the Internet; that's what makes it so great. It is a neutral medium and a series of ends; each end is a website that is unregulated.

Answer 8

As far as I know, Nobody. Some countries have reculatory bodies but as a whole I don't think anybody runs it. It a huge network of computers.

Answer 9

An anologous question and answer would be "who creates light, heat?"

Because no one do it; everyone keeps to itself and Internet was put together by the effort of "keeping to itself" combininng with standard agreed communication.

Answer 10

Skynet. Or maybe Al Gore.