Have you ever thought that who Controls your Internet? You must be thinking that the sim card that you are using like Jio, Airtel, or Vodafone provides you with the internet. But this is not true and let me tell you that neither it is controlled by the Government. Government can block posts, or block websites if necessary. Apart from these neither Google nor Facebook controls your internet. I am going to tell you everything about the internet in this post.
How the Internet Works?
The Internet is a rule which controls democracy and freedom around the world. A country like China blocks some of the websites. Www.youtube.com is a link, youtube is a domain name in this URL, and .com is known as the top-level domain. If you want to make a professional website then you need to purchase the domain name. Apart from these, there are some websites that sell domains to their client. Website like Go daddy.com, Domain.com, Bluehost, Siteground, etc.
But the question is who gave the authority to these websites that can sell the domain freely? There is a management called ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). This is a non-profit association established in Los Angeles. This is a top-level authority on the internet. ICANN has the authority to give permission to any website that can sell the domain in the market. ICANN is a non-profit organization and it sells top-level domains by bidding. Who purchase any top-level domain from ICANN are known as Registries.
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Is ICANN handles the internet?
So the question is, is ICANN handle all kinds of websites? It is also not true because the Internet is a decentralized network. It is like a net, any kind of mobile, a computer that is connected to the internet that makes the whole Internet. You can also call it the servers. Underwater cables are laid all over the world. These underwater cables help to connect all the computers across the continent. Now you would say that my mobile is not connected to any kind of wired net then how does it work? A mobile phone works because of the mobile tower in 2G,3G, and 4G speeds.
When you are nearby any tower then you will get good signals. But when you go far from that tower, you will get a poor signal. Your tower is connected to the internet cables that are laid all over the world. You can understand it by an example, suppose a cable is laid in India. Thereafter it has laid till Mumbai and from Mumbai, it has spread all over the region in India.
In this way, the Internet became available in small and big cities. The second thing is if any company lay underground cables and it provides to every place. These companies have significant powers and you can call them ISPs (Internet service providers). These ISPs can block some specific websites if the government asks to block them. Still, so many users use VPNs to remove the blockage of some websites.
What is IP?
As you call someone by typing a specific number through which you can contact them. In the same way, every device that is connected to the internet has a specific IP address. Whether you are using your cellphone, computer, or a Datacenter, everyone has a unique IP address. Even every website has an IP address that is available on the internet. I know you access any website by typing their domain name but that domain is connected with the IP address. People don’t remember the IP address because those are coded in digits and numbers. A domain name is the human-readable form of an IP address.
Whenever you write any domain name on Google or another search engine then DNS helps to convert that domain name into an IP address. There are so many internet service providers that block websites through DNS. So whenever you type any domain name that won’t connect with that IP address. Using VPN and changing the DNS server is the way through which you can access any blocked websites.
Who controls the internet?
Now the question is who controls the internet? the right answer is the Internet is for everyone because the internet works only because there is a decentralized system. If you have a website then only you can own a small part of the internet. How can you make a website? first, you have to purchase a domain name and then a server.
Now you may have a question that your mobile phone or computer may be a server. It may be but these do not have enough processing power that can work 24/7. That’s why big companies have already made a data center and servers. These servers are secure and you can buy a server over there as well and store your data. Then you have to link your domain name with the server and publish your DNS.
Conclusion.
The Internet is so big that you can’t even imagine just like our galaxies. There is a map of the internet and if you want to visit then simply go to http://internet-map.net/. You can also see the ranking and how big the websites are over there. Facebook, Instagram, Google, and some other websites are just 5% part of the internet. You are unaware of 95% part of the internet. As per Google’s report, there are 175 new websites are created every minute on the internet.
Who controls the internet? there is no specific answer to this question, it works on a large scale around the world. Every network belongs to different companies in the world and each company has its own privacy and policy. No one in the world controls the entire internet, the internet is for everyone.
There are so many government agencies, universities, and other entities that operate their own networks in the world. People use 4G-5G speed at a large scale around the world but there are some countries where people’s ISP provides up to 8G speed. Hope you must have got a Lil bit of information in this post about the internet.