In July 2020, we published a blog in which we presented one of ICANN's research initiatives – the Identifier Technology Health Indicators (ITHI) – describing why it is important for the Internet ecosystem and why we are keen to welcome more participants and to collect...

The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which will be held virtually due to COVID-19, officially opens on 9 November and closes on 17 November. Pre-events and other working sessions will be held from 2 to 6 November. Members of the ICANN...

Thank you to everyone who helped make the ICANN69 Virtual Annual General Meeting a success. This was our largest Virtual Public Meeting ever, with over 1,616 registered attendees from 157 countries. ICANN69 Statistics In the coming weeks, we'll release the ICANN69 By the...

The ICANN Board, community, andorganization aregrateful for the community's tireless efforts and cooperative spirit shown over the last year. The collaborative contributions that community members have made through our Supporting Organizations, Advisory Committees, and...

Each day, the ICANN community comes together to develop policies that will ultimately impact how the world interacts with the Internet through its system of unique identifiers. At the heart of this important work is the ICANN multistakeholder model – a bottom-up system of...

As ICANN69 approaches, the ICANN Office of the Ombudsman would like to take this opportunity to thank each of you for your commitment to and respect for ICANN’s consensus-based, multistakeholder process of policymaking. ICANN Public Meetings are an important forum for the...

As you may have read in my earlier blog, ICANN69 is rapidly approaching, and we have made several changes to enhance and secure the meeting sessions. One of the new requirements is that everyone mustregister forICANN69 in order to view the schedule and participation links...

I am delighted to welcome you to the third and most ambitious ICANN Virtual Public Meeting to date, the ICANN69 Annual General Meeting (AGM). Originally scheduled to take place in Hamburg, Germany, this meeting is now being held virtually in the Central European Time zone...

This August, the Expedited Policy Development Process Phase 2 team submitted its Phase 2 Final Report, which outlines 22 recommendations for a System for Standardized Access/Disclosure (SSAD) for nonpublic generic top-level domain (gTLD) registration data, as well as...

As we embark on the new Fiscal Years (FY) 2021-2025 Middle East Regional Plan that came into effect on 1 July 2020, it is worth reviewing our regional undertakings and accomplishments over the past four years. 30 June 2020 marked the end of the FY 2017-2020 Middle East...

As a global organization, ICANN is committed to making our events and content accessible to our global community. I'm pleased to tell you that we will once again offer remote simultaneous interpretation (RSI) in the six United Nations languages (Arabic, Chinese, English,...

As we prepare for the ICANN69 Virtual Annual General Meeting, I am reminded of the important role our Public Meetings play in our multistakeholder model. It's where we develop policies that shape the future of the Internet. They also provide a space to build and...

Two years ago during ICANN63, the ICANN Board approved an eight-year plan to replenish the ICANN Reserve Fund to an amount equal to one year of operating expenses as the minimum target level of the Reserve Fund. Last month, for the first time in ICANN’s history, the...

As ICANN org President and CEO Göran Marby wrote about in his May 2020 blog, the Information Transparency Initiative (ITI) team is releasing new content to https://preview.icann.orgon a regular basis. This https://icann.org content has been improved with ITI’s enhanced...

With all ICANN meetings, our goal is to provide a secure and inclusive space for all participants. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this objective all the more important. The virtual meeting format, which we launched with ICANN67 in March and improved with ICANN68 in June,...

From 9 to 11 September, the ICANN Board held a virtual workshop focused on organizing our work and ensuring that we are fully prepared to deliver on our operational priorities. With ICANN69, our Annual General Meeting (AGM), quickly approaching, it was also an opportunity...

I am pleased to update our community on the installation of an ICANN Managed Root Server (IMRS) cluster in Singapore. This new cluster will help to increase the root server capacity for the Asia Pacific region and bolster the resiliency of the entire Root Server System....

Today, we published the first Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) strategic plan, the last step in fulfilling the implementation plan outlined in the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) stewardship transition by the cross-community working group. To view the...

I hope you and your loved ones are staying safe during these unprecedented times. We appreciate all the work our community is undertaking, despite the limitations as a result of COVID-19. I would like to share with you that ICANN org has updated its travel and meetings...

As part of an effort to keep the community informed about the evolution of policy and management of registration data, new information about the ICANN org's ongoing projects related to Registration Data Directory Services (RDDS) has been published. This roadmap, which is...

This week, the Board will be meeting remotely from 9 to 11 September to discuss and deliberate on several pressing issues. While the present circumstances continue to disrupt how the Board normally meets and conducts its business, it’s important that we keep our momentum...

ICANN's Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) is tasked with the formidable mission: to help improve the technical posture of ICANN in the world. As part of this mission, the OCTO team creates and publishes a portfolio of research papers and technical briefings...

The Domain Name System Security Facilitation Initiative Technical Study Group (DSFI-TSG) is now well underway and has completed its first major milestone: finalizing its charter and scope. Attacks on the DNS rarely impact only one actor in the Internet ecosystem and many...

In May 2020, we shared an update on the 2020 NomCom’s progress with selecting qualified candidates for open ICANN leadership positions. At that time, we advised that the COVID-19 pandemic would require us to revise our timeline. As you know, we normally would have...