Defending Consumers on the Internet

Increasingly, criminals maliciously use the Internet’s underlying structure to profit from cyber-scams and threats, including spam networks, identity theft, and illicit pharmaceutical sales. Part of the Inernet’s underlying structure that such criminals abuse is its Domain Name System (DNS), the protocol that enables your computer to identify the Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with any domain name, such as “www.icann.org.”  The DNS is administered by a nonprofit corporation, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

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