ICANN is calling for applications for the NextGen@ICANN Program at ICANN75. ICANN wants to hear from university students living and studying in the Asia Pacific region who are interested in the future of the Internet and in participating in the ICANN75 Annual Meeting. ICANN75 is scheduled to be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from 17 to 22 September 2022.

Recently, ICANN announced that the Pandemic Internet Access Reimbursement Program will continue for ICANN74. The program offers community members who have limited Internet capacity financial assistance to increase their Internet bandwidth for ICANN74. The deadline for applications is Friday, 27 May 2022, at 23:59 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

ICANN President and CEO Göran Marby announces ICANN will contribute US$1 million to the Emergency Telecommunications Cluster (ETC) for continued Internet access in Ukraine. The selection of the ETC came after careful research and consideration by the ICANN organization. Click the title to learn more about the contribution and the ETC in this blog post.

Maarten Botterman’s blog addresses the topic of closed generics. As noted in the Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process Working Group (SubPro PDP WG) Final Report, a closed generic is "a TLD representing a string that is a generic name or term under which domains are registered and usable exclusively by the registry operator or its affiliates."