📊The #ICANN85 By the Numbers report is now available! This document offers key data and stats from the ICANN85 Community Forum held in Mumbai, India. Check it out here >> https://lnkd.in/gD3M-eBZ #ICANN
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Technology, Information and Internet
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One World, One Internet
About us
To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a nonprofit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It helps promote competition and develop policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers. ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet.
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http://www.icann.org
External link for ICANN
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- Technology, Information and Internet
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- 201-500 employees
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- Los Angeles, CA
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- Nonprofit
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- 1998
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- Internet Stability, New gTLD, DNS Security, and Internet Policy
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Updates
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📢 #ICANN has issued a Request for Proposal seeking a provider to design, administer, and operate auctions to resolve string contention in the New gTLD Program: 2026 Round. The auction process will be used when multiple applications are in contention for the same or confusingly similar gTLD strings that are not resolved through other mechanisms. The selected provider will oversee the process in accordance with the Applicant Guidebook, using an ascending-clock, second-price auction method. 🗓 Deadline: 2 June 2026. Learn more >> https://lnkd.in/dM55ZjDu
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ICANN reposted this
🔔 Multilingual Internet Boosts Countries' Economic Activity 💬 "More than 120 countries and tech giants have already recognized the importance of a multilingual internet — not only from an educational and cultural standpoint, but also from an economic development perspective. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and other tech giants are doing everything they can to advance this process." 💬 "Armenia has also taken steps and is now ready to join international solutions." 📌 Igor Mkrtumyan, Board Chair of “Internet Society” NGO 🌐 On March 31, the regional conference "Building a Truly Multilingual Internet" was held at the European University of Armenia, as part of UADay2026. According to recent research, a multilingual internet boosts countries' economic activity, as people engage more actively online when content is available in their native language. Senior representatives from ICANN , ITU , and UNESCO , as well as members of the technical community and students, participated in the conference. 🤝 Universal Acceptance Day events have been held worldwide since 2023, with the support of ICANN and local partners. In 2026, the regional Universal Acceptance Day conferences in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia were organized with the support of the Regional Coordination Group for Universal Acceptance in the CIS and Eastern Europe. #UADAY2026 #Armenia #Internet4All #ICANN #ISOCArmenia #dotհայdomain #armeniandomain
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🔎 Is your registry planning to deploy #DNSSEC? The DNSSEC Roadshow supports African #ccTLD operators working to strengthen DNS security and operational resilience. If DNSSEC is on your roadmap, this is the moment to move forward. 👉 Apply before 1 May 2026. Submit your application: https://bit.ly/4r9X57o
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💡 Staying aligned with global trends is vital for a secure and resilient internet! Joe Catapano, from #ICANN’s North American Stakeholder Engagement team, took the stage at #CanWISP2026 today to share critical insights into the evolving global regulatory landscape and what these shifts mean for Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
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📢 #ICANN has extended the deadline to respond to its Request for Proposal for a single, qualified provider to conduct the Geographic Names Panel review and the Reserved Names Panel review for the New gTLD Program: 2026 Round. The Geographic Names Panel evaluates whether an applied-for gTLD string represents an eligible geographic name. The Reserved Names Panel determines whether a string represents a reserved name and verifies supporting documentation submitted by applicants. The new deadline is Friday, 10 April, 23:59 UTC. More details >> https://lnkd.in/gEEKffxv
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Read the February 2026 #ICANN Contractual Compliance Report for key highlights and an overview of activities >> https://lnkd.in/gQtWENbU
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📢 The second application submission period for the #ICANN New gTLD Program: 2026 Round Registry Service Provider (RSP) Evaluation Program opens 30 April 2026 and closes 12 August 2026. The RSP Evaluation Program helps streamline the evaluation of gTLD applications by separating the evaluation of back-end technical services from the application for the label. Organizations that clear evaluation in this period will join the RSPs cleared in the first application period. 🔗 Learn more here >> https://lnkd.in/g9c8yPcS
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📖 Read #ICANN Board Chair Tripti Sinha’s blog recapping the March Board Workshop and #ICANN85. The update highlights key discussions and decisions, including preparations for the New gTLD Program: 2026 Round, approval of the 2026 Base Registry Agreement, progress on strategic planning, and other priority areas. 🔗 Read more >> https://lnkd.in/gm45kPpr
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📖 Read #ICANN President and CEO Kurtis Lindqvist’s blog looking back at #ICANN85. The update highlights participation across 112 countries and territories, meaningful progress on priority areas, including preparation for the New gTLD Program: 2026 Round, adoption of the 2026 Base Registry Agreement, and continued work on Universal Acceptance, DNS Abuse, and registration data policy. 🔗 More details >> https://lnkd.in/gCvEBGYa
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