Welcome to the ICANN Policy Information Area

The Policy Department invites you to receive monthly updates on ICANN policy development activities through a free online subscription to the ICANN Policy Update. To subscribe, simply visit the ICANN Subscriptions page, enter your e-mail address, and then click on the ICANN Policy Update. Issues of the Policy Update are also posted here for your information and reference.

Key Activities

Below you will find links to important areas of Internet policy development currently being addressed by the ICANN community’s bottom-up, consensus based, policymaking structure.

Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs):

• IDNs Information Area
• IDN TLDs – GNSO
• Final Report IDNC WG on Fast Track Process for IDN ccTLDs

New gTLDs Policy Information - GNSO

Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy - GNSO

Registration Abuse Policies – GNSO

Registrar Agreement Amendments and Registrants Rights – GNSO, ALAC

Whois - GNSO

Global Addressing Policies - ASO

DNSSEC Participation Survey Results - ccNSO

Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery – GNSO

Internationalized Registration Data – SSAC

Geographic Regions – All

GNSO Improvements

Policy Staff

Members of the ICANN Policy Staff are listed below. To reach the ICANN policy staff, please write to policy-staff@icann.org. We welcome your questions and comments.

• Matt Ashtiani - At–Large Coordination Officer (USA)
• Bart Boswinkel – Senior Policy Advisor, ccNSO (Netherlands)
• Glen de Saint Gery – GNSO Secretariat (France)
• Liz Gasster – Senior Policy Counselor (USA)
• Gisella Gruber – At-Large & GNSO Secretariat (UK)
• Julie Hedlund – Director of SSAC Support (USA)
• Robert Hoggarth – Senior Policy Director (USA)
• Marika Konings – Policy Director (Belgium)
• Margie Milam – Senior Policy Counselor (USA)
• Kristina Nordstrom – ccNSO Secretariat Support (Sweden)
• David Olive – Vice President, Policy Development (USA)
• Brian Peck – Policy Director (USA)
• Nathalie Peregrine – Secretariat Support, GNSO/ALAC (France)
• Gabriella Schittek – ccNSO Secretariat (Poland)
• Steve Sheng – Senior Technical Analyst (USA)
• Heidi Ullrich – Director for At-Large (USA)
• Marilyn Vernon – Executive Assistant (USA)
• Silvia Vivanco – Manager, At-Large Regional Affairs (USA)
• Filiz Yilmaz – Senior Director, Participation and Engagement (Netherlands)