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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 ...
ICANN Posts Application and Assessment Criteria Information for New Top-Level Domain Proposals - 📅 - August 16, 2000 - Marina del Rey, CA --
Yesterday, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN) posted the application forms and assessment criteria
for new top-level domain (TLD) proposals. Applications will
be accepted beginning September 5, 2000 until October 2, 2000,
followed by a two-week public comment period and review by the
ICANN Board of

Directors. An announcement of the Board's ...
ICANN Issues New TLD Application Process Overview - 📅 - Following the ICANN
meetings in Yokohama in mid-July 2000, ICANN has received a very
large number of inquiries regarding the process for applying to sponsor
or operate new TLDs.
The nature and extent of
the inquiries makes clear that there is a significant ...

ICANN AT-LARGE MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION EXCEEDS 158,000 INTERNET USERS WORLDWIDE - 📅 - July 31, 2000 - Marina del Rey, CA
-- The Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced today that it had ended its
first At-Large Membership registration period with more than 158,000
Internet users signed up worldwide. The registration period extended
from February 25 - July 31. The ICANN At-Large members will select ...
ICANN Concludes Board Meeting in Yokohama - 📅 - Adopts Policies to Add New Top
Level Domains, Elect At Large Members for the Board of Directors
and Enhance the Stability and Security of the Root-Server System

Yokohama, Japan (July 16, 2000) - Today,
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
held a regular meeting of its Board of Directors. Items on the
agenda included:

...
New Accredited Registrars Announced - 📅 - (July 10, 2000) The Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced today that eleven
additional companies have qualified to be accredited as domain
name registrars in the .com, .net and .org domains. They are:


Blueberry
Hill Communications, Inc. dba 4domains.com
(United ...