What is ICANN ?
ICANN is an organization that operates on a multinational/international level and is responsible for assigning IP protocol addresses, protocol identifiers, domain system management functions and administration of the root server system. These services were originally performed by IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) and other U.S. government entities.
ICANN is dedicated to preserving the stability of the Internet through consensus-based processes. ICANN coordinates the administration of the technical elements of the DNS to ensure unique name resolution, so that users can find all addresses without repetition.
Uniform Policy
One of the tasks it was asked to perform is to address the issue of domain name ownership of the gTLD.
ICANN sought to have such a policy developed in close cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the result has become known as the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).
This policy essentially attempts to provide a quick, cost-effective and reasonable response mechanism for resolving domain name disputes.
