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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN“) is seeking one or more provider(s) to conduct an economic study examining pricing trends and other competition indicators in the global domain name system (DNS) market. …

ICANN announced that New gTLD applicants can now get a 9 month extension on executing the Registry Agreement. All applicants (including those that wish to qualify as a .Brand TLD) seeking an extension to the …

On 14 August ICANN posted the Enhancing ICANN Accountability and Governance: Process and Next Steps. Since posting, ICANN received some questions that are compiled here together with items perhaps useful to be addressed for the …

ICANN has opened a comment period to obtain community input on the proposed amendments to the Registry Agreements of several registry operators: .SOHU, .IMMO, .SAARLAND, .CLUB. The proposals requess the release of all two-character ASCII …

ICANN has announced that 24 more New gTLDs have been delegated for a total of 370 new gTLD strings. Here are some of the more important of the latest 24 new gTLDs: .diet, .hosting, .property, …

As described in the 14 August 2014 posting of the Enhancing ICANN Accountability: Process and Next Steps, four respected individuals with backgrounds in academia, governmental relations, global insight, and the Affirmation of Commitments (AoC), will …

ICANN is posting for public comment proposed Bylaws revisions that would incorporate a higher voting threshold for the Board to determine not act consistently with the advice of the Governmental Advisory Committee. Currently, the Bylaws …

The ICANN 2014 Nominating Committee (NomCom) has completed its selections for six leadership positions within ICANN, listed below for each ICANN body, in alphabetical order by family name. Also the Non-Contracted Parties House (NCPH) has …

ICANN has authorized the bulk transfer of gTLD domain names from IPXcess.com Sdn Bhd to Above.com Pty Ltd. due to the non-renewal of IPXcess.com Sdn Bhd’s Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA). The affected gTLD registries have …

ICANN today published Enhancing ICANN Accountability and Governance – Process and Next Steps, a document that describes the process to examine how, from an organizational perspective, ICANN‘s accountability mechanisms should be strengthened to address the …

The New gTLD Auction Schedule is updated as of 11 August 2014. This version is updated to reflect the 2015 Auction Dates for January, February, and March. Also reflected is the finalization of the Name …

ICANN released a new IANA Functions Infographic which explains how the core IANA functions allow users like you to access the Internet. The revised infographic incorporates feedback from the community.

ICANN granted data retention waiver to 4 European registrars: MAILCLUB SAS 1API GmbH ingenit GmbH & Co. KG Registry Gate GmbH The 4 registrars submitted to ICANN a Registrar Data Retention Waiver Request pursuant to …

ICANN announced that the current President and CEO, Fadi Chehadé, will continue as CEO for at least two years beyond the initial term of his current Agreement. The full Board discussed and agreed, following a …