Background
The Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) is a policy-development body which is responsible for developing and recommending to the ICANN Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains.
Status: Assessment Phase – Please refer to the GNSO Improvements Implementation Dashboard and GNSO Improvements Implementation Timeline for the status of these efforts
| 2010 | The process of implementing these recommendations is presently ongoing, and a public web portal has been created as a central resource for documents related to the GNSO improvements program. Please refer to the GNSO Improvements Implementation Dashboard (http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/status-en.htm) and GNSO Improvements Implementation Timeline (http://gnso.icann.org/en/improvements/timeline-en.htm) for the status of these efforts |
| June 2008 | The independent review of the GNSO completed, the Board adopts a set of improvement recommendations. Further information on the steps to completion may be found at: https://st.icann.org/gnso_transition/index.cgi?gnso_improvements |
| 2006 | Review process of the GNSO is launched. |