Information for the Press
Welcome Ceremony
Press Conference - Seoul, South Korea - 26 October 2009
Audio
- English: http://audio.icann.org/meetings/seoul2009/20091026-1030-press-en.mp3
- 한국어: http://audio.icann.org/meetings/seoul2009/20091026-1030-press-ko.mp3
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- Michele Jourdan
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Email: michele.jourdan@icann.org
Director of Media Affairs
Tel: +1 202 429 2710
Email: brad.white@icann.org
or - Michele Jourdan
ICANN in the News
Net
turns truly Indian as .bharat goes online from 2010
11
NOV 09
No
Rush to Adopt Domain Names Written in Chinese in China
10
NOV 09
Seoul
to set up new body for internet address policies
8
NOV 09
Not
So Imminent: Domain Names in Chinese (Wall Street Journal)
2 NOV 09
Move
Over Dot Com, Bonjour International URLs (NPR)
2 NOV 09
News Releases 
Global Internet Leaders Welcome Internationalization of Internet Address Names
16
NOV 09
Advisory:
News Conference at Internet Governance Forum
16
NOV 09
Advisory:
New ICANN Developments To Be Discussed at Internet Governance Forum
16
NOV 09
Internet
Naming System Goes Global
30
OCT 09
Internationalization
of the Internet Takes Center Stage at ICANN Seoul Meeting
25
OCT 09
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Issues of Interest to Journalists
New gTLDs | Internationalised Domain Names | Fast-track IDN ccTLD Activities | IPv6 | Affirmation of Commitments
What Is ICANN?
To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet.
ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers.
ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet.