ICANN DNS Symposium | September 2023 The sixth Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) DNS Symposium (IDS 2023) was held on 5 Septemb…

Main Page The ICANN 78 - Hamburg Playing Card Deck is a special edition of the longstanding ICANNWikitradition. For ICANN 78, ICANNWiki created a special…

"In the absence of existing policy or new bottom-up policy recommendations, the Board saw no rationale for placing restrictions on cross-ownership;" said …

ICANN Data Protection Practices This page is available in: ICANN understands the importance of requirements and practices for protecting personal data. T…

The Internet's domain-name system (DNS) allows users to refer to web sites and other resources using easier-to-remember domain names (such as "www.icann.…

Team members of ICANN DNS Engineering are regularly attending technical meetings such as NANOG, AUSNOG, NZNOG, SANOG, LACNOG, etc. to talk about various …

ICANN Fellowship Program About The goal of the ICANN Fellowship Program is to strengthen the diversity of the multistakeholder model by fostering opportu…

The Board Governance Committee Working Group recommended the creation of SGs in its GNSO Improvements Report. The Board Governance Committee (BGC) create…

The ICANN Ombuds The ICANN Ombuds' job is to make sure that ICANN community members are treated fairly. Acting as an impartial mediator, the Ombuds helps…

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is an information technology company which offers a wide range of products, services and IT infrastructure solutions worldwide. The …

The Internet Governance Forum or IGF was established in order to provide the necessary support for the United Nations Secretary General in conducting the…

ICC The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), is the voice of businesses worldwide, working towards the enhancement of economic growth, job creation a…

.us .us is the country code top-level domain name (ccTLD) for the United States. Its operations are overseen by the Department of Commerce (DOC). DOC is …

At the establishment of the .jp domain the domain was administered by the JPNIC , as part of their role as an overseeing technical body for the Internet i…

Contents Adoption Statistics and Use Cases As of February 2021, there were nearly three million active .co domains.[2] This represents roughly 0.8% of th…

.tv is the country code top level domain name (ccTLD) assigned to the Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu under the ISO-3166 list. The ccTLD is currently …

STI Specific Trademark Issues (STI, also Special Trademark Issues) is a resolution adopted by the Generic Names Support Organization (GNSO) on 28 October…

Contents Overview This mechanism is meant to provide the Board with the necessary operational information to determine the impact of implementing a GNSO …

.io This article concerns a major concept that exist in the English version of Wikipedia, which can be seen by clicking here. However, it has been deemed…

Background On September 11, 2007, the ICANN Board approved the delegation of the .me ccTLD to the government of Montenegro.[1] The operations at the time…

Empowered Community What is the Empowered Community? The Empowered Community is the mechanism through which ICANN's Supporting Organizations (SOs) and Ad…

PDP A Policy Development Process (PDP) is a set of practices used in the creation or change of policies related to ICANN and its constituencies. PDP refe…

Background The establishment of the IRT was a result of a public discussion regarding the implementation models of new gTLDs during the 34th ICANN Meetin…

The Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC) is a non-profit organization; it was officially funded by the Directorate General Telecommunications of the…

About the Operational Design Phase The purpose of the Operational Design Phase (ODP) is to perform an assessment of Generic Names Supporting Organization…

TCP/IP TCP/IP stands for Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol also known as the Internet Protocol Suite; it serves the industry standard in c…

Background SOs and ACs are periodically reviewed to assess whether there are improvements or modifications that should or could be made to increase the e…

Fast Flux (FF) is an evasion technique used by Internet miscreants and cyber-criminals to evade their identification, thwarting anti-crime efforts aimed a…

Submitting a Complaint to ICANN Contractual Compliance This page is available in: To submit a complaint, select the form next to the issue which best des…

Is your domain name registration about to be dropped? Is it safely locked to prevent unauthorized transfers, updates or deletions? Does it have any restri…

Registration Reporting Interfaces The Registration Reporting Interfaces (RRI) system is a set of interfaces provided by ICANN to contracted parties inclu…

Next Steps Throughout this process, the ITI team has been actively engaging with ICANN stakeholders in usability sessions to gather community input. The …

Data Protection A note about our terms of service: We have updated our electronic terms of service to provide greater transparency and align with laws ap…

Established for more than 18 years in South East Asia, we have vast experience in everything website solutions related, from domain names to SSL certifica…

Autonomous System Based on RFC 4271, the Autonomous System (AS) refers to a set of routers under a single technical administration. ASes use an interior …

Developing Policy at ICANN A fundamental part of ICANN's Mission is to coordinate policy development related to the Internet's system of unique identifie…

This program aims to facilitate the active participation in ICANN Public Meetings Meeting for certain community members with limited Internet capacity by…

Data Protection A note about our terms of service: We have updated our electronic terms of service to provide greater transparency and align with laws ap…

Vertical Integration Vertical Integration (VI, or Cross Ownership) is a business structure in which the various functions of the Registry Operator and th…

Universal Acceptance Universal Acceptance or UA is the concept that all domain names should be treated equally, and it is a technical requirement that en…

America Online (AOL) provides global web services, tools, platforms and maintains content sites in a variety of niches. The company also offers online ad…

Advisory Committee An Advisory Committee (AC) of ICANN is a formal advisory body, composed of representatives from the Internet community with expertise …

Business Constituency The Commercial Business Users Constituency (also known as the Business Constituency, or BC) represents the position and interests o…

Registry Agreement The Registry Agreement (RA) is a generic formal document constructed by ICANN, it's Councils and Boards, and the community at large. I…

The Initial Evaluation (IE) is a process that all applications go through as part of the New gTLD Program created by ICANN . The process ensures that the …

Supporting Organizations The ICANNSupporting Organizations (SOs) serve as the advisory bodies for the ICANN Board of Directors, with the primary responsi…

GNSO Council Appointees Six representatives from the Contracted Parties House are appointed to the GNSO Council, plus one voting Nominating Committee App…

Shared Registry System Shared Registry System (SRS) refers to a system in which an unlimited number of registrars may compete in the domain name registra…

Monitoring System API Specification Overview Monitoring System API (MoSAPI) is a REST API that allows registry operators to retrieve information collecte…

At-Large Structures At-Large Structures (ALSes) are independent and self-supporting organizations within ICANN's At-Large Community, which aim to represe…

Uniform Rapid Suspension The Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) was designed exclusively to provide trademark owners with a quick and a low-cost proce…

Public Interest Registry (PIR) is a generic top-level domainregistry that manages the .orgtop level domain, .ngo & .ong domains, .opr domain, .机构 domain …

Overview ISPs provide Internet connectivity to homes and workplaces on a contractual basis. The beneficiary (either an individual person or an organizati…

Public Interest Commitments Public Interest Commitments (PICs) were developed as a way for new gTLD applicants to add provisions to the Registry Agreemen…

Internet Architecture Board The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is a chartered committee for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the advisor…

Contents Process The ICANN Board directs the ICANN President and CEO to conduct an ODP and produce an ODA to address a series of questions about a set of…

The Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) is the organization responsible for the operation of the IANA Functions, which primarily includes coordinating the…

Independent Review Process The Independent Review Process (IRP) is an ICANN Accountability mechanism that provides third-party review of ICANN's actions.…

Board Governance Committee BGC is an abbreviation for Board Governance Committee. It is one of the Board Committees of ICANN created to assist the Board …

The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) is a Cabinet Department of the United States government with a sizable mandate to boost economic growth an…

National and Regional IGF Initiatives National and Regional IGF initiatives (NRIs) are independent formations for discussing issues pertaining to Interne…

Global Stakeholder Engagement Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) is part of the ICANN Organization. It leads engagement and outreach with stakeholders a…

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) is a state-run administration and service organization responsible for fundamental internet reources.[1…

History The RAA was originally one of several agreements between ICANN, the United States Department of Commerce (DOC), and Network Solutions, with the i…

Information and Communications Technology This article has been marked for deletion, most likely due to not following ICANNWiki's content guidelines. Wit…

IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) was formed by ICANN in response to the NTIA's ann…

Join Us! Recent Announcements LOS ANGELES – 11 June 2024 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that Prague, Czech R…

HELP/FAQs AGIFEM The “Association pour la Gouvernance de l’Internet en France, en Europe et dans le Monde” is a nonprofit association (under the French l…

The GAC serves as the voice of Governments and International Governmental Organizations in ICANN's multistakeholder representative structure. The GAC con…

ICANN Public Comment is a vital part of our multistakeholder model. It provides a mechanism for stakeholders to have their opinions and recommendations f…

Our Purpose The ASO is one of ICANN’s three Supporting Organizations (SOs). We review and develop recommendations on Internet Protocol (IP) address polic…

Quick links to: The GNSO Policy Briefing is produced by ICANN's Policy staff supporting the GNSO. It is drafted specifically in preparation for ICANN mee…

Welcome to CZDS! Please check back often as new gTLDs will be added once they are delegated. If you are looking for the zone file of a TLD that is not li…

ccNSO Facebook Page We have updated our privacy policies and certain website terms of service to provide greater transparency, promote simplification, an…

This service connects requestors seeking nonpublic registration data with the relevant ICANN-accredited registrars for gTLD domain names who are particip…

You can get these at industry-best prices from our partner brand OnlyDomains.com. If your domain name is with 1API and you have a support request, please…

Internet and e-mail policy and practice including Notes on Internet E-mail Subscribe to this blog 27 May 2019 Last November I wrote a post observing that…

ICANN picked Kurt Erik “Kurtis” Lindqvist as the new President and CEO, after almost two years of having an interim officer. The new ICANN President and …

ICANN has picked industry veteran Kurt Erik “Kurtis” Lindqvist to take over as president and CEO. He will replace interim CEO Sally Costerton, who has be…

We've now had a week to digest the applications for new TLDs that were announced by ICANN last week. Esther Dyson, the founding chairman of ICANN, says t…

ICANN's new President's Strategy Committee Report makes public for the first time what insiders have been muttering about for almost a year: ICANN has a g…

This "Affirmation" was signed by the CEO on behalf of ICANN and appears to make "commitments" about actions ICANN will take which would have a major impa…

Ron_Bennett writes "Bogus "Whois Problem Reports" are increasingly going from being an annoyance to being a real security risk. Some recent incidents I'v…

ehasbrouck writes "As I've been reporting for several years , key staff of the Internet's governing body, ICANN, cut a secret deal at least as early as 20…

Verisign requested approval of a Bulk Transfer After Partial Portfolio Acquisition (BTAPPA) process from ICANN in July, with the amendment for 15-day not…

ICANN DNS Symposium | September 2023 The sixth Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) DNS Symposium (IDS 2023) was held on 5 Septemb…

Main Page The ICANN 78 - Hamburg Playing Card Deck is a special edition of the longstanding ICANNWikitradition. For ICANN 78, ICANNWiki created a special…

"In the absence of existing policy or new bottom-up policy recommendations, the Board saw no rationale for placing restrictions on cross-ownership;" said …

ICANN Data Protection Practices This page is available in: ICANN understands the importance of requirements and practices for protecting personal data. T…

The Internet's domain-name system (DNS) allows users to refer to web sites and other resources using easier-to-remember domain names (such as "www.icann.…

Team members of ICANN DNS Engineering are regularly attending technical meetings such as NANOG, AUSNOG, NZNOG, SANOG, LACNOG, etc. to talk about various …

ICANN Fellowship Program About The goal of the ICANN Fellowship Program is to strengthen the diversity of the multistakeholder model by fostering opportu…

The Board Governance Committee Working Group recommended the creation of SGs in its GNSO Improvements Report. The Board Governance Committee (BGC) create…

The ICANN Ombuds The ICANN Ombuds' job is to make sure that ICANN community members are treated fairly. Acting as an impartial mediator, the Ombuds helps…

Hewlett-Packard (HP) is an information technology company which offers a wide range of products, services and IT infrastructure solutions worldwide. The …

The Internet Governance Forum or IGF was established in order to provide the necessary support for the United Nations Secretary General in conducting the…

ICC The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), is the voice of businesses worldwide, working towards the enhancement of economic growth, job creation a…

.us .us is the country code top-level domain name (ccTLD) for the United States. Its operations are overseen by the Department of Commerce (DOC). DOC is …

At the establishment of the .jp domain the domain was administered by the JPNIC , as part of their role as an overseeing technical body for the Internet i…

Contents Adoption Statistics and Use Cases As of February 2021, there were nearly three million active .co domains.[2] This represents roughly 0.8% of th…

.tv is the country code top level domain name (ccTLD) assigned to the Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu under the ISO-3166 list. The ccTLD is currently …

STI Specific Trademark Issues (STI, also Special Trademark Issues) is a resolution adopted by the Generic Names Support Organization (GNSO) on 28 October…

Contents Overview This mechanism is meant to provide the Board with the necessary operational information to determine the impact of implementing a GNSO …

.io This article concerns a major concept that exist in the English version of Wikipedia, which can be seen by clicking here. However, it has been deemed…

Background On September 11, 2007, the ICANN Board approved the delegation of the .me ccTLD to the government of Montenegro.[1] The operations at the time…

Empowered Community What is the Empowered Community? The Empowered Community is the mechanism through which ICANN's Supporting Organizations (SOs) and Ad…

PDP A Policy Development Process (PDP) is a set of practices used in the creation or change of policies related to ICANN and its constituencies. PDP refe…

Background The establishment of the IRT was a result of a public discussion regarding the implementation models of new gTLDs during the 34th ICANN Meetin…

The Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC) is a non-profit organization; it was officially funded by the Directorate General Telecommunications of the…

About the Operational Design Phase The purpose of the Operational Design Phase (ODP) is to perform an assessment of Generic Names Supporting Organization…

TCP/IP TCP/IP stands for Transmission Control Protocol/ Internet Protocol also known as the Internet Protocol Suite; it serves the industry standard in c…

Background SOs and ACs are periodically reviewed to assess whether there are improvements or modifications that should or could be made to increase the e…

Fast Flux (FF) is an evasion technique used by Internet miscreants and cyber-criminals to evade their identification, thwarting anti-crime efforts aimed a…

Submitting a Complaint to ICANN Contractual Compliance This page is available in: To submit a complaint, select the form next to the issue which best des…

Is your domain name registration about to be dropped? Is it safely locked to prevent unauthorized transfers, updates or deletions? Does it have any restri…

Registration Reporting Interfaces The Registration Reporting Interfaces (RRI) system is a set of interfaces provided by ICANN to contracted parties inclu…

Next Steps Throughout this process, the ITI team has been actively engaging with ICANN stakeholders in usability sessions to gather community input. The …

Data Protection A note about our terms of service: We have updated our electronic terms of service to provide greater transparency and align with laws ap…

Established for more than 18 years in South East Asia, we have vast experience in everything website solutions related, from domain names to SSL certifica…

Autonomous System Based on RFC 4271, the Autonomous System (AS) refers to a set of routers under a single technical administration. ASes use an interior …

Developing Policy at ICANN A fundamental part of ICANN's Mission is to coordinate policy development related to the Internet's system of unique identifie…

This program aims to facilitate the active participation in ICANN Public Meetings Meeting for certain community members with limited Internet capacity by…

Data Protection A note about our terms of service: We have updated our electronic terms of service to provide greater transparency and align with laws ap…

Vertical Integration Vertical Integration (VI, or Cross Ownership) is a business structure in which the various functions of the Registry Operator and th…

Universal Acceptance Universal Acceptance or UA is the concept that all domain names should be treated equally, and it is a technical requirement that en…

America Online (AOL) provides global web services, tools, platforms and maintains content sites in a variety of niches. The company also offers online ad…

Advisory Committee An Advisory Committee (AC) of ICANN is a formal advisory body, composed of representatives from the Internet community with expertise …

Business Constituency The Commercial Business Users Constituency (also known as the Business Constituency, or BC) represents the position and interests o…

Registry Agreement The Registry Agreement (RA) is a generic formal document constructed by ICANN, it's Councils and Boards, and the community at large. I…

The Initial Evaluation (IE) is a process that all applications go through as part of the New gTLD Program created by ICANN . The process ensures that the …

Supporting Organizations The ICANNSupporting Organizations (SOs) serve as the advisory bodies for the ICANN Board of Directors, with the primary responsi…

GNSO Council Appointees Six representatives from the Contracted Parties House are appointed to the GNSO Council, plus one voting Nominating Committee App…

Shared Registry System Shared Registry System (SRS) refers to a system in which an unlimited number of registrars may compete in the domain name registra…

Monitoring System API Specification Overview Monitoring System API (MoSAPI) is a REST API that allows registry operators to retrieve information collecte…

At-Large Structures At-Large Structures (ALSes) are independent and self-supporting organizations within ICANN's At-Large Community, which aim to represe…

Uniform Rapid Suspension The Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) was designed exclusively to provide trademark owners with a quick and a low-cost proce…

Public Interest Registry (PIR) is a generic top-level domainregistry that manages the .orgtop level domain, .ngo & .ong domains, .opr domain, .机构 domain …

Overview ISPs provide Internet connectivity to homes and workplaces on a contractual basis. The beneficiary (either an individual person or an organizati…

Public Interest Commitments Public Interest Commitments (PICs) were developed as a way for new gTLD applicants to add provisions to the Registry Agreemen…

Internet Architecture Board The Internet Architecture Board (IAB) is a chartered committee for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the advisor…

Contents Process The ICANN Board directs the ICANN President and CEO to conduct an ODP and produce an ODA to address a series of questions about a set of…

The Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) is the organization responsible for the operation of the IANA Functions, which primarily includes coordinating the…

Independent Review Process The Independent Review Process (IRP) is an ICANN Accountability mechanism that provides third-party review of ICANN's actions.…

Board Governance Committee BGC is an abbreviation for Board Governance Committee. It is one of the Board Committees of ICANN created to assist the Board …

The United States Department of Commerce (DOC) is a Cabinet Department of the United States government with a sizable mandate to boost economic growth an…

National and Regional IGF Initiatives National and Regional IGF initiatives (NRIs) are independent formations for discussing issues pertaining to Interne…

Global Stakeholder Engagement Global Stakeholder Engagement (GSE) is part of the ICANN Organization. It leads engagement and outreach with stakeholders a…

China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) is a state-run administration and service organization responsible for fundamental internet reources.[1…

History The RAA was originally one of several agreements between ICANN, the United States Department of Commerce (DOC), and Network Solutions, with the i…

Information and Communications Technology This article has been marked for deletion, most likely due to not following ICANNWiki's content guidelines. Wit…

IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group The IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG) was formed by ICANN in response to the NTIA's ann…

Join Us! Recent Announcements LOS ANGELES – 11 June 2024 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that Prague, Czech R…

HELP/FAQs AGIFEM The “Association pour la Gouvernance de l’Internet en France, en Europe et dans le Monde” is a nonprofit association (under the French l…

The GAC serves as the voice of Governments and International Governmental Organizations in ICANN's multistakeholder representative structure. The GAC con…

ICANN Public Comment is a vital part of our multistakeholder model. It provides a mechanism for stakeholders to have their opinions and recommendations f…

Our Purpose The ASO is one of ICANN’s three Supporting Organizations (SOs). We review and develop recommendations on Internet Protocol (IP) address polic…

Quick links to: The GNSO Policy Briefing is produced by ICANN's Policy staff supporting the GNSO. It is drafted specifically in preparation for ICANN mee…

Welcome to CZDS! Please check back often as new gTLDs will be added once they are delegated. If you are looking for the zone file of a TLD that is not li…

ccNSO Facebook Page We have updated our privacy policies and certain website terms of service to provide greater transparency, promote simplification, an…

This service connects requestors seeking nonpublic registration data with the relevant ICANN-accredited registrars for gTLD domain names who are particip…

You can get these at industry-best prices from our partner brand OnlyDomains.com. If your domain name is with 1API and you have a support request, please…

Internet and e-mail policy and practice including Notes on Internet E-mail Subscribe to this blog 27 May 2019 Last November I wrote a post observing that…

ICANN picked Kurt Erik “Kurtis” Lindqvist as the new President and CEO, after almost two years of having an interim officer. The new ICANN President and …

ICANN has picked industry veteran Kurt Erik “Kurtis” Lindqvist to take over as president and CEO. He will replace interim CEO Sally Costerton, who has be…

We've now had a week to digest the applications for new TLDs that were announced by ICANN last week. Esther Dyson, the founding chairman of ICANN, says t…

ICANN's new President's Strategy Committee Report makes public for the first time what insiders have been muttering about for almost a year: ICANN has a g…

This "Affirmation" was signed by the CEO on behalf of ICANN and appears to make "commitments" about actions ICANN will take which would have a major impa…

Ron_Bennett writes "Bogus "Whois Problem Reports" are increasingly going from being an annoyance to being a real security risk. Some recent incidents I'v…

ehasbrouck writes "As I've been reporting for several years , key staff of the Internet's governing body, ICANN, cut a secret deal at least as early as 20…

Verisign requested approval of a Bulk Transfer After Partial Portfolio Acquisition (BTAPPA) process from ICANN in July, with the amendment for 15-day not…