ICANN Is Not the Internet Content Police (2015)

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@icann.org | 1 year ago

Challenges with Alternative Name Systems [pdf]

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@icann.org | 2 years ago

ICANN's rejection of Ukraine's request to sever Russia from the internet [pdf]

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@icann.org | 2 years ago

ICANN 1174 TLDs Registry Listings

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@icann.org | 2 years ago

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you

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@icann.org | 2 years ago

The Problem with “The Seven Keys”

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@icann.org | 2 years ago

ICANN Information Disclosure Feedback Questionnaire Online

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@icann.org | 2 years ago

DNSSEC Now Deployed in All Generic Top-Level Domains

LOS ANGELES – 23 December 2020 – Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers organization (ICANN org) announced that all of the current 1,195 generic top-level domains (gTLDs)... | Continue reading


@icann.org | 3 years ago

ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)

Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted to ICANN.After completing extensive... | Continue reading


@icann.org | 4 years ago

ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)

Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted to ICANN.After completing extensive... | Continue reading


@icann.org | 4 years ago

ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the .org TLD

Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted to ICANN.After completing extensive... | Continue reading


@icann.org | 4 years ago

ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the .org Registry

Today, the ICANN Board made the decision to reject the proposed change of control and entity conversion request that Public Interest Registry (PIR) submitted to ICANN.After completing extensive... | Continue reading


@icann.org | 4 years ago

California's AG writes to ICANN about takeover of .ORG registry [pdf]

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@icann.org | 4 years ago

Shortdot SA Registry Services Evaluation Policy (RSEP) Request for .ICU [pdf]

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@icann.org | 4 years ago

DNSSEC Root Key Signing Key Ceremony Postponed

The 40th Root Key Signing Key Ceremony, originally scheduled for 12 February 2020 in El Segundo, California, has been postponed. One of the security mechanisms that protects the contents of the... | Continue reading


@icann.org | 4 years ago

Tell ICANN what you think of their plan to raise the price of .com

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@icann.org | 4 years ago

ICANN and Verisign Announce Proposed Amendment to .COM Registry Agreement

LOS ANGELES and RESTON, Va. – Jan. 3, 2020 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and VeriSign, Inc. (Verisign), the registry operator of the .COM top-level domain (TLD)... | Continue reading


@icann.org | 4 years ago

Update: Proposed Acquisition of Public Interest Registry (PIR) by Ethos Capital

On 20 December 2019, PIR submitted confidential responses to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' (ICANN) request for additional information regarding the proposed acquisition... | Continue reading


@icann.org | 4 years ago

Beginner’s Guide to Participating in ICANN [pdf]

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@icann.org | 4 years ago

ICANN Delays .Org Sale Approval, Calls for More Transparency

The proposed acquisition of Public Interest Registry (PIR) by Ethos Capital was announced on 13 November 2019 by the parties and the Internet Society (ISOC). This announcement has raised many... | Continue reading


@icann.org | 4 years ago

ICANN has removed price cap provisions on .ORG domains

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@icann.org | 4 years ago

Amazon wins the right to use .amazon

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@icann.org | 4 years ago

ICANN proposed removing price cap on .info, .org, and .biz domains

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@icann.org | 5 years ago

ICANN proposes to lift price limits on .org TLD

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@icann.org | 5 years ago

ICANN registry agreement termination information page: graveyard of new gTLDs

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@icann.org | 5 years ago

Initial Report of the New GTLD Auction Proceeds Cross-Community Working Group

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@icann.org | 5 years ago

The recent root DNSSEC key rollover: summary and next steps

As we hope you have already heard, the main cryptographic key for the DNS root zone was changed on 11 October 2018 in an elaborately orchestrated series of steps. The result was exceptionally good:... | Continue reading


@icann.org | 5 years ago

ICANN DNSSEC KSK rollover

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@icann.org | 5 years ago

ICANN approves (second-attempt) DNSSEC root key rollover for 11 October 2018

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@icann.org | 5 years ago

ICANN's guide on what to expect during the DNSSEC root KSK rollover

LOS ANGELES – 22 August 2018 – As the ICANN Organization prepares, for the first time ever, to change the cryptographic keys that help protect the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS), the... | Continue reading


@icann.org | 5 years ago

ICANN/SSAC recommends KSK roll, 5-person minority dissent [pdf]

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@icann.org | 5 years ago

ICANN Adopted FY19 Key Projects and Activities [pdf]

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@icann.org | 5 years ago

RSSAC023: a history of the DNS root nameserver system [pdf]

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@icann.org | 5 years ago

German Court Rules on ICANN Request to Preserve WHOIS Data

LOS ANGELES – 30 May 2018 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( | Continue reading


@icann.org | 5 years ago