Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the .com, .net, and .name generic top-level domains and the .cc and .tv country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the .jobs, .gov, and .edu top-level domains. Verisign also offers a range of security services, including managed DNS, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack mitigation and cyber-threat reporting.

CNNIC is an administration and service organization that provides application-oriented services through secure and stable internet infrastructures for public interests. As an important constructor, operator, and administrator of infrastructures in the Chinese information society, CNNIC is responsible for the operation, administration, and service of fundamental internet resources. It undertakes R&D and security work of fundamental internet resources, conducts research on internet development, provides consultancy services, and promotes the cooperation and technological exchange of global internet in an effort to become a world-class network information center. CNNIC is headquartered in Beijing, China.

NUM Technology is organising the world’s contact data using the DNS

Go Daddy Operating Co. LLC provides website hosting services. The firm offers domain search, auctions, managed hosting, SSL & Site protection, website security and other domain registration services. The company was founded by Robert R. Parsons and is headquartered in Pheonix, AZ.

Orange S.A., formerly France Télécom S.A., is a French multinational telecommunications corporation. It has 256 million customers worldwide and employs 95,000 people in France, and 59,000 elsewhere. It is the tenth largest mobile network operator in the world and the fourth largest in Europe after Vodafone, Telefónica and VEON. In 2015, the group had revenue of €40 billion. The company's head office is located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. The current CEO is Stéphane Richard. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

Cloudflare is a web performance and security company that provides online services to protect and accelerate websites online. Its online platforms include Cloudflare CDN that distributes content around the world to speed up websites, Cloudflare optimizer that enables web pages with ad servers and third-party widgets to download Snappy software on mobiles and computers, CloudFlare security that protects websites from a range of online threats including spam, SQL injection, and DDOS, Cloudflare analytics that gives insight into website’s traffic including threats and search engine crawlers, Keyless SSL that allows organizations to keep secure sockets layer (SSL) keys private, and Cloudflare applications that help its users install web applications on their websites. Lee Holloway, Matthew Prince, and Michelle Zatlyn founded Cloudflare in 2009, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California.

Fractal:Edge develops visualization and analysis software to help access and understand large, complex or fast-moving information sources quickly and accurately. Founded in 1998, the company is backed by private and institutional investors, including Wesley Clover.\nThe Fractal:Edge visualization engine employs a unique technique based around fractals. The company has worldwide patent protection, with patents granted in the United States, Europe and other territories and pending in all other major world markets.\nThe Fractal:Edge team is committed to working with dynamic and innovative partners to deliver targeted Fractal Applications and custom Fractal Map solutions to commercial, educational and charitable organizations worldwide.

Symtec, Inc. is an American private company. The firm provides heaters and controllers.

KISA is committed to improving the competitiveness, reliability and security of Internet information and knowledge in Korea.

Web.com Group, Inc. is a provider of internet services and online marketing solutions for small and medium businesses. Web.com meets the needs of small and medium businesses anywhere along their lifecycle by offering a full range of online services and support, including domain name registration services, website design, logo design, search engine optimization, search engine marketing and local sales leads, general contractor leads, franchise and homeowner association websites, shopping cart software, eCommerce web site design and call center services.

QUALCOMM, Inc. engages in the development, design, and provision of digital telecommunications products and services. It operates through the following segments: Qualcomm CDMA Technologies (QCT), Qualcomm Technology Licensing (QTL), and Qualcomm Strategic Initiatives (QSI). The QCT segment develops and supplies integrated circuits and system software based on technologies for the use in voice and data communications, networking, application processing, multimedia, and global positioning system products. The QTL segment grants licenses and provides rights to use portions of the firm's intellectual property portfolio. The QSI segment focuses on opening new or expanding opportunities for its technologies and supporting the design and introduction of new products and services for voice and data communications. The company was founded by Franklin P. Antonio, Adelia A. Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, Irwin Mark Jacobs, Andrew J. Viterbi, and Harvey P. White in July 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

GeoTechnologies, Inc. /JP/ (doing business as iPC) is a company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with subsidiaries in China. The firm develops and markets car navigation systems and software. It was founded in 1994. Hiroshige Sugihara is the current CEO of the company.

Internet Domain Name System Beijing Engineering Research Center Co., Ltd., established on 2013-03-28, Business scope includes computer and Internet technology development,technical consulting,Technical Services,technology transfer;Basic software service,Application software service;selling computers,Software and Auxiliary Equipment;Internet data center business in the first category of value-added telecommunications business.(Enterprises independently choose operating projects according to law,Carry out business activities;Internet data center business in the first category of value-added telecommunications business,and items that are legally subject to approval,Carry out business activities in accordance with the approved content after approval by relevant departments;Do not engage in the business activities of projects prohibited and restricted by the city's industrial policies.)

Founded in 2002, Chengdu Xiwei Digital Technology Co., Ltd. is a well-known old brand domain name and cloud service provider in China and a national high-tech enterprise. Western Digital is one of the first one-stop Internet basic service platforms in China that passed the certification of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology Industry and issued the Business License for Value added Telecommunications Business of the People's Republic of China. As a top-level domain name registration service agency with dual authentication of ICANN and CNNIC, and a domestic old brand cloud computing service platform, it provides users with domain name registration, domain name trading, cloud virtual host, cloud server, enterprise mailbox, cloud construction station, host rental and other network services to help customers easily and efficiently apply the Internet and improve enterprise competitiveness. [Five star registration service agency] Western Digital is a dual certified top-level domain name registration service provider of ICANN and CNNIC. After the new generic TLDs were opened to the world, Western Digital responded quickly and innovated actively. At one time, the number of new TLDs registered accounted for 1/4 of the world's total, opening a new era in the domain name industry. A complete domain name ecosystem is equipped to provide one-stop services from domain name query and registration, resolution management, to domain name trading, market exchange, etc. He has been outstanding in domain name registration and service for a long time. Since 2010, he has been rated as a five-star registration service agency by China Internet Center (CNNIC) every year for more than 10 years. [Domestic senior cloud computing service platform] Western Digital is an early domestic high-quality cloud service provider that provides IaasS and PaaS services, and has formed a rich product line focusing on cloud virtual hosts, cloud servers, and enterprise mailboxes. It meets the needs of users in different industries and has won wide market recognition. It has been awarded the "User Satisfaction Award" and "Excellent Cloud Computing Service Provider" by the industry authorities for many times. Western Digital still has few cloud computing service institutions that have passed the ITSS "cloud computing service capability assessment", and has obtained the Internet resource cooperation business license (cloud license) issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, which fully reflects the strong R&D strength in the cloud computing field. [Strong R&D strength and operation and maintenance guarantee] Western Digital has a professional team composed of hundreds of senior programmers, software engineers, product R&D and network security experts. It has successively developed powerful domestic virtual host management system, dynamic domain name resolution system, distributed cluster network acceleration system, intelligent filing system, server management assistant and other products, and has a number of patents, It is the first in the industry to introduce a cloud computing platform that uses KVM+Hadoop distributed storage. The server clusters of Western Digital are distributed in more than 10 high-quality IDC data centers at home and abroad. It deploys 7 * 24 hour on-site maintenance personnel, uses high-performance hardware firewalls such as Golden Shield, Black Hole, and carrier level network real-time monitoring system to build a 365 day continuous stable operation guarantee system to provide customers with high-quality and stable network resources and computer room services.

KDDI Corp. engages in the telecommunications business. It operates through the following segments: Personal Services, Business Services, and Others. The Personal Services segment provides communication services for individuals and energy; educational services; commerce; finance and settlement; and entertainment services. The Business Services segment provides communication services, ICT solutions, data center services for companies The Others segment handles communication equipment construction and maintenance, and research and development of information and communication technology. The company was founded by Kazuo Inamori on June 1, 1984 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

ETRI is the largest government funded research institute in Korea, which strives to advance science by means of formulating innovative ideas; developing new techniques; and training professional individuals in the area of information telecommunications to ultimately enhance social and economical aspects of the modern society.

The establishment of Peng Cheng Laboratory (PCL) is a strategic deployment introduced by the Guangdong Provincial Government to implement President Xi Jinping's important instructions on the development of Guangdong Province. It aims at developing a new round of innovation-driven economy and establishing a “strong candidate” for the National Laboratory initiatives for the innovative advancement of the Guangdong Province. It is also a critical investment of Shenzhen municipal government to continue its pioneering exploration of socialist modernization in Shenzhen. PCL is established as a Provincial Research Lab by the Guangdong Provincial Government and funded as well as managed by the Shenzhen Municipal Government. In partnership with the Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), PCL also cooperates with local leading universities, research institutions and major enterprises. These cooperating institutions include Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Tsinghua University Graduate School at Shenzhen, Shenzhen University, Southern University of Science and Technology, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Huawei, ZTE, Tencent, National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen, China Electronics Corporation, China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom. Committed to serving the national and regional strategic advancement, PCL amasses high-quality innovative resources, builds relevant major scientific infrastructure, and carries out world-class interdisciplinary and collaborative innovative research. The researchers at PCL are striving to make breakthroughs in major core theoretical issues in the field of network information, artificial intelligence and cyberspace security, leading the future directions of academic research and promoting the development of information industry. PCL is working towards becoming an international scientific innovation center in the Greater Bay Area. It will also proactively explore the innovative institutional mechanism in line with the law of scientific research of the time, drawing on the strength of the “whole-nation system”. The objectives of PCL include both short-term and long-terms ones. By 2020, PCL is expected to complete initial research infrastructure construction. PCL shall be recognized as a leading research institution at the national level. By 2030, a national open source research platform will be established and will become a National Laboratory. Such platform shall provide services to nationwide research institutions, capable of providing innovative solutions to major technical challenges of international significance in broader areas of information technology, including these key technologies that are critical to China’s fundamental national scientific competence. By 2050, PCL will become a world leading scientific institution working at the frontiers of scientific research in information technology and making original contributions in broad areas scientific innovation.