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Update 13 October 2000 - 📅 - On Monday, 2 October 2000 the application
period for those seeking to sponsor or operate new TLDs ended.
A total of 47
applications were received during the application period.
Fourty-four of these applications are still active.

ICANN has completed the following steps
in its review of ...
Update: 5 October 2000 - 📅 - Update


On Monday, 2 October 2000 the application
period for those seeking to sponsor or operate new TLDs ended.
A total of 47 applications were received during the application
period. ICANN has posted a list
of the applicants and the TLD strings they are ...

ICANN Update - Names Council Warns Pre-Registration of Speculative New Domain Names Is Premature - 📅 - September 29, 2000 -- Commenting on the
process for establishing new top-level domain names (TLDs) the
Names Council of the Domain Name Supporting Organization (DNSO)
emphasizes that no new TLDs have been selected as of this date
and no one is authorized to pre-register names.

Noting that some companies are claiming
to offer pre-registration services to consumers who may wish
to register ...
Recent ICANN Postings: November 2000 Annual Meeting - 📅 - DETAILS FOR NOVEMBER 2000 ANNUAL
MEETING

ICANN has posted details for its second
annual meeting, to be held 13-16 November 2000 in Marina del
Rey, California, United States of America. The meeting is free
and open to any interested person.


Meeting ...

Advisory Concerning Register.com v. Verio Litigation - 📅 - (24 September 2000) On 3 August 2000 Register.com,
Inc. (an accredited registrar) filed a lawsuit (No. 00-Civ-5747
(BSJ)) against Verio Inc. in the United States District Court
for the Southern District of New York. The lawsuit concerns Verio's
use of information obtained from Register.com's Whois service.
On 12 September 2000, the Court asked ICANN to submit a memorandum
describing its position on the interpretation of the ...
ICANN Selects election.com to Conduct One of World's Largest All-Internet Votes - 📅 - More Than 76,000 Registered Members from Around
the World to Cast Their Votes Online in First ICANN Vote



Marina del Rey, CA and Garden City, NY, September
21, 2000 - The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN), the technical coordination body for the Internet, ...
UPDATE: Nominations Period Ends; Voter Education/Dialogue Begins - 📅 - The At Large nominations period has concluded,
and ICANN's At Large membership process now moves into the voter
education & dialogue phase. The At
Large website has been updated and revised, and features
a basic webpage for each nominee (including links to their own
websites); current information about the schedule, rules, FAQs,
etc.; and a Question & Answer Forum to facilitate ...
UPDATE: ICANN At Large Nominations Period Nears Conclusion - 📅 - The nominations period of ICANN's At Large
membership election process will conclude tomorrow, September
8, midnight GMT. September 8 also marks the deadline for membership
applicants to activate their memberships, allowing them to cast
ballots in this year's round of elections.

The next stage of the At Large process
will be the voter education and dialogue phase. Starting September
...
ICANN and U.S. Government Agree to Extend Agreements - 📅 - (4 September 2000) ICANN announced today
that its agreements with the United States Government will be
extended for up to one year. Under the agreements, the first
of which was entered in November 1998, the U.S. Government and
ICANN have been engaged in a transition of selected Internet
technical-management functions (such as the domain-name system)
to the private sector. The extensions are necessary to allow
ICANN and its ...
ICANN Comment on NSI Registry Multilingual Domain Name Testbed - 📅 - (25 August 2000) Yesterday, NSI Registry
announced
its plans to open a testbed for ICANN-accredited registrars
to register domain names in non-English language character sets
in .com, .net, and .org.

ICANN recognizes that it is important that
the Internet evolve to be more accessible to those who do not
use English-language ...