ICANN Weekly Newsletter
News from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
http://www.icann.org Week ending 23 October 2009
Announcements This Week
Proposals Sought to Provide Costs and Feasibility to Conduct WHOIS Registrant Identification Studies
The GNSO is responsible for
developing and recommending to the ICANN Board substantive policies
relating to gTLDs. The GNSO Council is now exploring several extensive
studies of WHOIS and has asked ICANN to estimate the cost and
feasibility of conducting several studies proposed by members of the
ICANN community and ICANN's Government Advisory Committee. ICANN is now seeking to engage independent research organizations to undertake proposed WHOIS registrant identification studies.
23 October 2009
ICANN and the Universal Postal Union Conclude Negotiation for .POST
ICANN and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) have reached an agreement in
principle for the UPU sponsorship of the .POST Top-Level Domain.
20 October 2009
Upcoming Events
25 - 30 October 2009: 36th International Public ICANN Meeting - Seoul, South Korea
7 - 12 March 2010: 37th International Public ICANN Meeting - Nairobi, Kenya
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