Last week, the Arab Internet community came together to discuss Internet governance issues and priorities related to the region. The Arab Multi-stakeholder Internet Governance meeting took place in Dubai as part of the Arab IGF open consultations. The meeting, hosted by...

January was a busy month for ICANN community engagement. Building on the successes of the DNS Industry CEO roundtable event and the Europe regional Registry/Registrar meeting, the Non-Contracted community of the GNSO held its first intersessional meeting in Los Angeles as...

Building on the great work that has been achieved to date, yesterday I met with the Registrar Stakeholder Group’s Negotiating Team to continue with negotiations toward a new Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). We started the day by affirming our commitment to...

On Monday, I was very pleased to host more than a dozen leaders from the registry community; participants in our latest CEO Roundtable series focused on key issues and trends within the Domain Name System sector. Over the course of a day, we discussed the evolution of the...

In December 2012, ICANN announced the start of work to collect and publish data which would help correlate performance of L-Root with growth in the root zone. The first set of measurements concerned with identifying growth in the root zone, was published last month....

The recently completed Europe Regional Registry/Registrar Meeting held in Amsterdam exceeded all previous regional meetings in local and remote participation. The meeting was attended by 240 current or prospective registries and registrars and observers. There were over...

In ourMarch 2012Thought Paper on Domain Seizures and Takedowns, we offerguidance[PDF, 439 KB] to anyone who prepares an order that seeks to seize or take down domain names. By offering this guidance, we do not endorse such actions as a prescriptive measure, nor do we...

We are delighted to see so much interest reflected, with over 240 registrants for the regional Registry Registrar meeting taking place in Amsterdam January 24th and 25th 2013. This is by far the most attended regional meeting since ICANN started the hosting regional...

21 December 2012 To the ICANN Community, I believe The Domain Name System — and the Industry that has grown up around it — are at an inflection point. With the impending introduction of new gTLDs and the vertical integration of the DNS value chain, we, as leaders within...

This is an update on our progress with implementation of the 28 recommendations from the Security, Stability and Resiliency (SSR) Review Team. In October at the ICANN meeting in Toronto, the ICANN Board approved the Final Report and recommendations of the Security,...

Friends and colleagues, Today marks the end of the lengthy WCIT conference in Dubai. I am sure you along with most of our community have been watching events carefully. As you know, Steve Crocker and I were invited to attend the opening ceremony two weeks ago, and I was...

We are passing on this announcement from our colleagues at the University of Maryland, regarding a change to the IPv4 address to one of the DNS root servers. This is advance notice that there is a scheduled change to the IPv4 address for one of the authorities listed for...

Today I convened the final informational call to close off the series of stakeholder meetings on implementing the Trademark Clearinghouse. I shared the following updates: Trademark Clearinghouse Agreements I am pleased to announce that we have signed an agreement with...

Two senior members of ICANN’s Security Team have been appointed to lead roles on global cybersecurity and DNS security initiatives. John Crain has been appointed by the root server operators to a seat on Board of Directors for the Domain Name System Operations Analysis...

To wrap up the series of meetings ICANN convened with stakeholders to find common ground on Trademark Clearinghouse implementation, we conducted a follow-up briefing today for the group who worked on these issues during our meetings in Brussels and Los Angeles. We...

This week, I met with a group of stakeholder representatives to work with ICANN staff to complete implementation discussions on the Trademark Clearinghouse and its associated rights protection mechanisms. As I wrote in my previous post from Brussels, these implementation...

On 24-25 January 2013, ICANN and its gTLD registration services providers will meet in Amsterdam for the Europe Regional Registry/Registrar meeting. These regional meetings are a chance for ICANN staff and representatives from gTLD registries and ICANN-accredited...

Last week, I invited a group of stakeholder representatives to work with ICANN on architecture/implementation solutions for the Trademark Clearinghouse. The issues we tackled included: Registration: How trademark data will be verified and recorded in the Clearinghouse....

Español Top row (from left to right): Julián Dunayevich – Argentina, Wardner Maia – Brasil, Alejandro Guzmán – Colombia, Oscar Robles-Garay – México, Rafael Ibarra – El Salvador, Raúl Echeberría – Uruguay, José Luiz Ribeiro Filho – Brasil, Germán Valdez – México, and...

Dave Piscitello, Sr. Security Technologist, for the ICANN Security Team Diigo is a social annotation and bookmarking service that millions of individuals, educators, and students use daily to manage and share information, conduct research and collaborate. On October 24th,...

ICANN is responsible for the management of the root zone’s DNSSEC Key Signing Key (KSK). This responsibility includes secure storage of cryptographic key material in redundant Key Management Facilities (KMFs) located within the USA, one in Culpeper, Virginia and one in El...

We are pleased to report that ICANN has engaged China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) to produce an open-source RESTful WHOIS Server Implementation. This project is being launched to facilitate the eventual adoption of the recent IETF standard work to develop...

The day finally arrived. October 17th, 2012. Community members from Latin America and the Caribbean met at the ICANN45 meeting in Toronto to discuss a strategic plan for the region. For the first time ever, regional representatives from each constituency or stakeholder...

A little over a year ago, on 21 July 2011, ICANN, Verisign and NTIA launched a Root Zone Management (RZM) workflow automation system. This system gives top-level domain (TLD) operators greater flexibility when updating their TLD delegations: they can log in to the system...

In mid May, ICANN published a draft statement of its role and remit in the security, stability and resiliency of the Internet’s unique identifiers. After the ICANN meeting in Prague, the public comment period was extended until 31 August 2012. While a number of comments...