Thank You for a Successful ICANN69
Thank you to everyone who helped make the ICANN69 Virtual Annual General Meeting a success. This was our largest Virtual Public Meeting ever, with over 1,616 registered attendees from 157 countries. ICANN69 Statistics In the coming weeks, we’ll release the…
Recognizing ICANN Community Contributions in 2020
The ICANN Board, community, and organization are grateful for the community’s tireless efforts and cooperative spirit shown over the last year. The collaborative contributions that community members have made through our Supporting Organizations, Advisory Committees, and other groups are central to supporting…
2020 Hindsight After 20 Years
After two decades of involvement with ICANN, I am stepping down from the Board of Directors, where I served for nine years. I have spent considerable time of late reflecting on the past 20 years and I have isolated some…
ICANN org Responds to the European Data Protection Board’s Public Consultation on the Board’s Guidelines on the Concepts of Controller and Processor
BRUSSELS – 19 October 2020 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced today that it has responded to the European Data Protection Board’s (EDPB) public consultation on its Guidelines 07/2020 on the concepts of controller and…
Ramanou Biaou Honored with 2020 Dr. Tarek Kamel Award for Capacity Building
LOS ANGELES – 19 October 2020 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is honored to announce the first recipient of the 2020 Dr. Tarek Kamel Award for Capacity Building is Ramanou Biaou. The ICANN Board recognizes…
ICANN Publishes FY20 Financial Results
LOS ANGELES – 15 October 2020 – Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced financial results for the fourth quarter of the financial year ending 30 June 2020, which reflects ICANN’s unaudited financials for the full…
Enhancing the Effectiveness of ICANN’s Multistakeholder Model Moves into Implementation
Each day, the ICANN community comes together to develop policies that will ultimately impact how the world interacts with the Internet through its system of unique identifiers. At the heart of this important work is the ICANN multistakeholder model –…
Promoting Mutual Respect at Public Meetings
As ICANN69 approaches, the ICANN Office of the Ombudsman would like to take this opportunity to thank each of you for your commitment to and respect for ICANN’s consensus-based, multistakeholder process of policymaking. ICANN Public Meetings are an important forum…
DiploNews – Issue 405 – 15 October 2020
DiploNews – Issue 405 – 15 October 2020 Upcoming study opportunities ? Applications open! Master/Postgraduate Diploma in Contemporary Diplomacy We are accepting applications for the 2021 online Master/Postgraduate Diploma in Contemporary Diplomacy and the Master/Postgraduate Diploma in Contemporary Diplomacy with…
Preliminary Issue Report on a Policy Development Process to Review the Transfer Policy
Open Date: 12 October 2020 Close Date: 30 November 2020 Originating Organization: Generic Names Support Organization (GNSO) Categories/Tags: Policy Development Top-Level Domains Brief Overview: Purpose: This Public Comment proceeding seeks to obtain community input on the Preliminary Issue Report on…