On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:07 AM,
Carrie Devorah
<carriedev@gmail.com
> wrote:
They are not a corporation. ICANN is a non-profit that jumped from over
$72,000,000 in 2012 reported to almost $250,000,000 in 2013 reported.
Where are you getting this "corporate" notion from? Is ICANN
planning to shift from non-profit to profit?
HI Carrie,
Sorry to differ.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers is a California public benefits corporation, governed by
§5110-§6910 of the California Corporations Code. ICANN's
articles of incorporation were filed on September 30, 1998 and it is
California entity number C2121683.
Corporation, per se, is a term that
can be applied to both for-profit and not-for-profit entities. I'm
unaware of any current plan to shift ICANN status from non-profit to profit,
although some have called for such a change (see, for
example: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/227726-icanns-number-is-up
).