ICANN will host a community webinar on the Operational Design Assessment (ODA) for the New Generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) Subsequent Procedures (SubPro) Final Report. The Final Report Outputs contain important recommendations for the growth of the Internet namespace in support of ICANN's mission. The event will take place on Wednesday, 14 December 2022 at 13:00–15:00 and 20:00–22:00 UTC.

ICANN invites the community to join a public webinar for an update on the ICANN Grant Program. This webinar will report on recent updates regarding the preliminary implementation design, the work ahead as implementation design continues, and the forecasted timeline leading to the first grant cycle. The webinar will take place on 1 December 2022 at 15:00 UTC.

ICANN org has published an advisory to raise awareness within ICANN community that some registrars have begun charging fees to process third-party requests for access to nonpublic generic top-level domain registration data. ICANN org is concerned that registrars' imposition of fees may pose an access barrier. Click the banner to read this advisory and learn more about this topic.

ICANN, in cooperation with its regional partners, is deploying a new ICANN Managed Root Server (IMRS) cluster in Nairobi, Kenya. An IMRS cluster helps improve DNS infrastructure in any country, territory, or region of the world, and in this case will reduce the impact of potential cyberattacks across Africa. Click the title to read this press release and learn more.