Who Controls the Internet?

Have you ever thought friends who runs the internet? Who controls the internet of the whole world? You might think that the companies providing internet like Jio, Airtel, BSNL control it. But this is not true because if one company stops providing it then the other company is also present here. So maybe you will think that our government controls it but this thing is also not true. The government can put up at most two-three Facebook posts, can block websites but they can be easily bypassed and no one can do more on the internet all over the world.

Creating Your Own Website

But this thing is also not true because you can create your own website and these companies will not be able to interfere in it. So the question here is that when you are creating your website, who is giving you space on the internet?

Why You Need to Understand the Internet

In this education article, friends, I would like to tell you about the internet because the internet is an important tool to maintain freedom and democracy all over the world. There are countries like China which keep their citizens completely blocked. Some websites like Google, YouTube, Facebook are permanently blocked there because

Purpose of the Article

So friends, I think it is very important to understand how the internet works and what it is and I would like to tell you this in this blog. At the end of this article, there is a special contest for you guys in which you have a chance to win many prizes.

What is a Domain Name?

www.youtube.com This is a URL is a link, the YouTube in it, friends, is called Domain Name and the .com is called Top Level Domain. If you want to make your own website, then you have to buy your domain name and there are some websites which sell domain name like GoDaddy.com. If you go to GoDaddy.com, then

Who Authorizes GoDaddy?

I had to buy it, so I went to godaddy.com and bought it, but now the question is who gave the authority to godaddy to go and sell this domain name, who is godaddy, there must be someone to sell domain name, who is saying that godaddy can sell domain name, if not then

Introducing ICANN

But it is not so, friends, there is another authority above it, the name of that authority is I can Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers I can, this is a non-profit organization, friends, which is best in Los Angeles, you can say that it is the top level authority regarding the Internet, it has the power to give rights to websites like godaddy.com, the right to sell domain names. This is the top level authority which decides what kind of domain names can be there. In short it can be dot com, dot in, dot info, dot gov etc. So ICANN decides that let’s go for dot gov.

How Domain Sales Work

Although it is a non-profit organization, it sells top level domain names to other companies by bidding. The companies to whom it sells are called registries. You can go to ICANN’s website and see which companies have bought different top level domains. For example, .aa has been bought by the American Automobile Association. Below the registries come registrars, companies like godaddy.com, who can sell top level domain plus domain name to people.

Is ICANN the God of the Internet?

So is ICan the God of the entire internet here? This cannot be said friends because the internet is a very decentralized network. Understand it like a net. The computer, mobile phone connects to the internet.

Role of Cables and Connectivity

Large underground cables are laid across the continents which connect all the computers of the world to each other, which forms the internet. Here friends, now you will ask that my mobile phone is connected to the internet.

You are near the mobile phone tower, only then you get 3G-4G signal on your phone, but if you go a little further, you will not get it. The mobile phone tower is actually connected to the wire. It is connected to that wire aventurily.

You can see it in the map that a big wire came to India which went till Mumbai and from the point of Mumbai, wires came out from there to different places and went to different areas of the whole India, so that internet reaches different areas of the whole country.

Power of Internet Service Providers

So in a way you can say that the company which made this wire It is the company which has significant power because it is providing internet to different places. Secondly, you can say that the company which is laying wires on the ground and connecting your home and your computers to the internet across the world, also has significant power. They are called Internet Service Providers, friends. These are your Airtel, Jio, BSNL which are providing internet to your home.

IP Address and DNS

Just like every mobile phone has a phone number from which you can call another mobile phone, similarly every device which is connected to the internet has an IP address, whether it is your computer or your smartphone or any other serv

This is what friends, when you type an IP address in your browser, it goes to some other server where the website of that server is visible to you on your computer. You will ask that when you type a domain name, you do not type an IP address, then the domain name server means DNS.

When you type the domain name of a website in the browser, the thing that converts that domain name into an IP address is the domain name server i.e. DNS. Now many times what internet service providers do is they block it from DNS.

How to Bypass DNS Blocking

So the DNS of the internet service provider is blocking you from visiting any website, for this you can simply use public DNS like Google’s DNS is 8.8.8. You can change your DNS by going to the settings of your mobile phone.

Final Thoughts on Who Owns the Internet

So coming back to our original question, who controls the internet? Whose internet is this? The correct answer is that it does not belong to anyone and belongs to all of us because the internet works only when it is a decentralized system and

You can turn on the internet only when you create your own website. How can you create a website? Buy a domain name. Then you have to buy a server where your website can be stored. Now you ask.

Website Hosting and Servers

So what the general public does is that big companies have built their data centers, have built big servers. They are very secure. You can go to them and buy your servers to store your website.

You can use it like a pendrive kept at home because the website is giving you storage space on the server here. Whenever you are out somewhere, you just open the website on the internet and keep it in your hard disk like documents.