TLD == top level domain
A TLD is the last .whatever that you type in, for example
www.yahoo.COM or www.va.GOV.  The .com or .gov is the top
level domain.  There are a lot of these as beyond .com, .org, .net,
.gov, .edu, and .mil, each country is assigned one of it's own (in
the U.S. it's .us, Belize is .bz, Japan .jp, etc etc) to do with as
they wish.  Usually the 3 letter tlds are administered by the U.S.

ICANN == Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
They act as the administrators of the Internet, deciding what top
level domains will be used, as well as what protocal will be used to
determine how domains are located (IPs are numbers that give
locations for computers on the web and look like this
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx).  They are supposedly an International group that
is looking into new TLD's as has been requested.
--justin
"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."
     - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)

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