Data centers<\/a><\/span> consist of networked computers, storage systems, and computing infrastructure that businesses and other organizations use to organize, process, store and disseminate large amounts of data.<\/p>\nOver the world, there are approximately 7.3 million data centers<\/strong> (maximums in the USA) and has large computer networks and storage devices. The information of data centers is scaled to the global level through TCP\/IP protocols, servers, routers, and hub systems<\/strong>.<\/p>\nTop companies working on routers, servers, cables, and other Internet Service Providers (ISPs)<\/strong> are as follows (in other words, they manage the Internet-related products & technicalities but remember, they are still not the complete owner of the Internet but own the internet infrastructures<\/strong>):<\/p>\n\n- UUNET.<\/li>\n
- IBM.<\/li>\n
- Level 3.<\/li>\n
- Verizon.<\/li>\n
- AT&T.<\/li>\n
- Lumen Technologies.<\/li>\n
- Sprint.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>Can the Internet be shut down?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nNo. the Internet can not be shut down<\/strong> entirely, but a specific portion can be controlled in specific situations<\/strong>. As you can’t restrict the water to flow, similarly nobody can stop the flow of the Internet. There is no single connection or point to regulate the Internet or control it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
On the other hand, as we discussed, top ISP companies<\/strong> that manage Internet-related infrastructures. These internet service providers can turn off and divert internet traffic flow by disabling DNS (Domain Name System)<\/strong>. Moreover, the government can order (or ask) ISPs to do so, as we see various examples in recent history (2011, Egyptian Revolution<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<\/span>Final Thoughts<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\nI hope you get the answer who owns the Internet<\/strong> and who manages it. You also understand that the Internet is not just about websites, but it’s really massive and intricate structure<\/strong>. Millions of individuals, companies, and organizations contribute to working the Internet in one way or another.<\/p>\nNo one regulates or controls the Internet because the Internet is massive, limitless, and highly uncontrolled<\/strong>. However, at different periods, some governments across the globe regulate some portion of the Internet to mitigate the dangers, including illegal activities, pornography, illegal mining, cyber crimes, etc<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billions of pages, posts, videos, and other information are published every day on the Internet, and almost everyone uses it, but you ever think who owns the Internet? Who manages these billions of pages, and how? Where are the tons of terabyte data, images, and videos are stored? These are the curious things to know […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[1373,1374,1358,1368,1359,1370,1356,1361,1363,1372,1362,1367,1355,1366,1360,1369,1371,1357,1365,1364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basicwebguide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}