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Have you ever thought about who runs the internet?

Who controls the internet worldwide?

Maybe you could think that the internet provider companies like Jio, Airtel and BSNL control the internet. But this is not true because, if one company stop providing internet, there are other companies present.

You have come to the right place if you want to know how the internet works.
In this article, you will get most of the information related to the internet, if you remain connected until the end of this post.

Before proceeding, you should know the internet is.

What is the Internet?

The internet is a wider network that allows computer network around the World run by companies, government, universities and the other organisation to talk one another.

It is that infrastructure that lets you order the weekly shop, share your life on Facebook, stream outcast on Netflix, email your aunt.

Now we know some basic knowledge related to the Internet. Keeping in mind your eagerness to know, we are moving forward to expose the world of Intenet.

How the Internet is made?

www.youtube.com. This is a URL/Link "youtube" here is called a domain name and the ".com" is called the top-level domain. If you want to build your own website, then you will have to buy your domain name. There are some websites that sell domain name as their job.

For example GoDaddy.com

But the question is that who gave them authority to sell a domain name?

There is another authority above it. The name of the authority is ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers).

This is a non-profit organisation based in Los Angeles. it has the power to authorize websites like GoDaddy.com to sell domain names. This is the authority that decides upon which websites can sell domain names. There could be.com, .in, .info or .gov. All of this is decided by ICANN.
Although it is a non-profit organization. It sells top-level domain names to the rest of the companies by bidding. The companies that it sells to are called "Registries". Below the registries are the Registrars. Companies like GoDaddy.com, that can sell both top-level domains as well as domain names to the people.

So, is ICANN the god of the Internet?

This cannot be said because the internet is a very decentralized network. All the mobile phones and computers that are connected to the internet, make up the internet.it is called Server, Your mobiles and computer are data centres and servers that are connected to each other through wires.

Huge underwater cables have been laid worldwide across the continents. That connects the computers worldwide to one another, Which make up the internet. Mobile phones operate through mobile towers and(offer) 3G, 4G which do not have an extremely wide range. so the towers of the mobile phones are actually connected to wires and they are eventually connected to those wires that are connected to the wires connected worldwide company that has laid down these wires holds a huge amount of significant power, because it is supplying internet to many different places.

Secondly, the companies that lay down cables on land to help internet reach every household by connecting these wires to the main cables and connect computers to the internet worldwide.

They too hold a huge amount of power. they are called internet service provider - ISPs

these would be like Airtel, Jio, BSNL that supply internet to your homes. these ISPs can block certain websites upon the direction of the government. But they do not hold sufficient power to control a lot of things, Because you could use VPNs to overcome the blockages of the ISPs.

IP Address

Just like every mobile phone has a number from which you can call another mobile phone, similarly, every device that is connected to the internet has an IP address, be it your computer, your Smartphone or be it any other server like a data centre, if it is connected to the internet, it will have an IP address, each web too, has an IP address.

For example - If you make a phone call on a number, then the call goes on another phone which you can talk on, similarly, when you type an IP address in your browser it goes to another server and you are able to view the website of that server on your own computer.

Now you are thinking that you type the domain name, not the IP address.

The domain names are connected to the IP address. Actually, Humans cannot read the IP address because it is written in digits and numbers.

So the domain name is a human-readable form of an IP address, when you type the domain name of a website in your browser. Then, the thing that convert the domain name into the IP address is called Domain Name Server (DNS). Sometimes the Internet Service Provider block certain websites from the DNS so that when you type the domain name, it is not able to link it to the particular IP address. so the DNS of the Internet Service Providers blocks you from reaching certain websites. For this you can simply use a public DNS. For example, the DNS, the DNS of Google is 8.8.8.8. you can go to your mobile setting and change your DNS. you can go to your computer setting and change your DNS to begin using the Google DNS. Then, the blocked websites will get unblocked, using VPN is another way.

So let us revert to our original question.

Who controls the INTERNET? who does it belong to?

The correct answer to this would be that it belongs to nobody and belongs to everybody. because the internet runs only when it is a decentralized system. And if you wish to buy a part of the internet, if you wish to own it. You can only do it when you build a website of your own.

the website can be build by purchasing your own domain name. then you had a need to buy a server where your website can be stored. Now a question has arisen that your mobile phones and your computers could be a server. Yes, they could be. but it does not have enough processing power and space to store an entire website, and also, neither your computer nor your phones run 24/7.

So what the people generally do is large companies have set up their data centres and huge servers, which are very secure. you could go, buy a server there to store your website. Then, you will have to link your domain name to your server and publish your DNS.

You own a website. what if you are able to use this website like using your hard disk or pen drives at home? Because the website is providing you with a storage space, which is on the server. when you are out somewhere(you cloud) merely open up your website on the internet and you are able to view the documents on the website just like you view the documents stored on a hard disk.

The difference being, the world is not able to access this website, only you would be able to access it, because it would have a username and password.

My view on the Internet and its working mechanism

Working on the internet complex and well organized, but it provides information by just one click in the easiest manner.

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