Internet actors

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DéfinitionInternet Service Provider

An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet.

  • An ISP serves as the access point and the router that provides a user access to everything available on the Internet.

  • Internet services typically provided by ISPs can include Internet access, Internet transit, domain name registration, web hosting...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_service_provider

Remarque

  • Internet service providers can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit...

  • Main commercial actors in France : Orange, Bouygues, SFR, Free, etc.

  • In France, the FFDN is a federation that gathers more than 30 associations acting as ISP.

Exemple

Rhizome, un FAI de la FFDN — rhizome-fai.netInformations[1]

DéfinitionContent and application providers

Any individual or organization that provides content and/or application to the other users, such as websites, mail access...

Exemple

  • GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft).

  • NATU (Netflix, Airbnb, Tesla, Uber)

  • BATX (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi)

  • Yandex

Exemple

  • Telegram

  • Wikipedia

  • ProtonMail

  • Framasoft

  • ...

DéfinitionServer

An Internet server is a computer connected to the Internet which provides services to other users, names clients.

  • It hosts services (web pages, videos access, agenda, mails...).

  • It serves other users answering their requests.

DéfinitionInternet hosting service

An Internet hosting service runs Internet servers for other users.

ExempleIn France

Gandi, OVH or Scaleway are Internet hosting service.