Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers

Address of Dr. Paul Twomey to the Working Group for Internet Governance
14 June 2005

ICANN Nominating Committee Extends Deadline for Submissions to 20 July 2005
13 June 2005

ICANN Board Designates VeriSign to Retain Control of .NET Registry
8 June 2005

ICANN Vice President to head up major European Project 'Galileo' unit
7 June 2005

ccNSO Issue Report regarding Changes to Bylaws, Policy Development Process, and Scope of ccNSO
7 June 2005

ICANN Publishes Proposed Agreement on .MOBI
3 June 2005

ICANN Announces New Staff Appointment
2 June 2005

sTLD Update: ICANN Moves Forward in First Phase Commercial & Technical Negotiations with an Additional sTLD Applicant
1 June 2005

Public Comment Forum for New Registry Services Procedure -- Open 1 June 2005 through 20 June 2005
31 May 2005

Review Procedure to Handle Policy Proposals Submitted by the ASO Address Council in Line with the ASO MoU - Public Comment Forum
31 May 2005

ICANN Posts Revised Telcordia Report on .NET RFP Evaluation
Telcordia has published a revised version of the .NET RFP Evaluation Final Report.
27 May 2005

ICANN Posts Proposed FY 2005-06 Budget
In accordance with Article XVI, Section 4 of the ICANN Bylaws, ICANN today posted its Proposed Budget for fiscal year 2005-06. The budget will be submitted to the ICANN Board for approval in Luxembourg on 15 July 2005 after additional review by the Budget Advisory Group and Finance Committee, constituency reviews, public comment, and possible amendment. Comment can be made to budget-comments@icann.org. The archive of comments is available at <http://forum.icann.org/lists/budget-comments/>.
17 May 2005

Revised Strategic Plan Posted for Public Comment
The public comment period has been extended to 20 May 2005.
6 May 2005 (updated 13 May 2005)

ICANN Posts Telcordia Review of Findings
Telcordia published a review of their evaluation report in light of letters received from .NET applicants and responded to the questions raised.
3 May 2005

ICANN Nominating Committee Issues Formal Call for Recommendations and Statements of Interest
ICANN's Nominating Committee invites Recommendations and Statements of Interest from the Internet community as it seeks qualified candidates for positions to assist in its technical coordination role. Recommendations and Statements of Interest for the positions on the ICANN Board of Directors, GNSO, ccNSO and ALAC can be submitted through http://www.icann.org/committees/nom-comm/formalcall-22apr05.htm. More information regarding the Nominating Committee and its role can be found through http://www.icann.org/committees/nom-comm/.
29 April 2005

Combined Whois Task Force Preliminary Report: ICANN's GNSO Opens Public Comment Forum
28 April 2005

Update – .NET RFP Process
25 April 2005

Update – .NET RFP Process
20 April 2005

ICANN Moves to Equip AfriNIC for its New Mission
AfriNIC, Africa's own Regional Internet number Registry (RIR) has just received its first allocation of numbering resources, including IP addresses and Autonomous System Numbers for the Africa region.
14 April 2005

ICANN Concludes 22nd Meeting with Major Announcements on AfriNIC, sTLDs & IPv4
8 April 2005

ICANN Officially Designates .JOBS & .TRAVEL
8 April 2005

Adopted Board Resolutions: Mar del Plata, Argentina
8 April 2005

Proposed Review Procedure for ASO Policy Proposals – Public Comment Forum
6 April 2005

ICANN Publishes Latest Newsletter, with focus on Latin America
5 April 2005

ICANN Meetings Open in Argentina 4-8 April 2005
4 April 2005

ICANN Publishes Registry and Registrar Compliance Program
The Compliance Program explains ICANN's approach to contractual compliance with regards to its Registry Agreements and Registrar Accreditation Agreements.
2 April 2005

ICANN Publishes Second Annual Update on the InterNIC Whois Data Problem Report System
Today ICANN published its update on the InterNIC Whois Data Problem Report System (WDPRS) in accordance with the requirements set out in ICANN's Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Department of Commerce.
30 March 2005

Revised Strategic Plan Posted
Public Comment Forum Open
29 March 2005

ICANN Opens Public Comment Forum on .NET Evaluators' Report
29 March 2005

ICANN Publishes Telcordia Report on their Findings and Rankings for .NET
The announcement is an update on the selection of a successor operator for the .NET registry.
28 March 2005

ICANN Posts Draft Corporate Governance Principles for Public Comment
28 March 2005

Strategic Plan Update
A review of comments submitted during the Strategic Plan consultation has been prepared by an outside evaluator. His report is now available.
28 March 2005

ICANN Completes Negotiations with Applicants for .JOBS and .TRAVEL
ICANN has completed negotiations with the applicants for the .JOBS and .TRAVEL sponsored top-level domains. The .JOBS and .TRAVEL sponsored TLD registry agreements have been posted on the ICANN website and submitted to the ICANN Board for approval.
24 March 2005

.EU Update
Earlier this week, ICANN's Board took steps to authorize the delegation of .EU as a ccTLD (country code Top Level Domain), and for ICANN Staff to enter into an agreement with EURid and to complete the delegation of .EU.
23 March 2005

Proposed Change to ICANN Bylaws Regarding Number of GNSO Council Representatives – Public Comment Forum
18 March 2005

AfriNIC Application for Recognition as Regional Internet Registry Public Comment Forum
14 March 2005

Update Regarding .NET Selection Process
ICANN posts a status update and next steps in the .NET registry operator selection process. Also posted: the draft .NET Registry Agreement.
9 March 2005

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Policy For Allocation of IPv4 Blocks to Regional Internet Registries Public Comment Forum
9 March 2005

Update concerning ICANN Strategic Plan Process
ICANN posts an advisory describing next steps in this consultative process.
7 March 2005

ICANN Announces New Staff Appointments
ICANN today announced the addition of four professional staff members. These new hires are targeted toward the continual improvement of Policy Development Support and IANA Operations.
2 March 2005

ICANN Statement Regarding IDN Homograph Concerns
ICANN supports the continued growth of global Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs). In response to recently publicised concerns regarding Internationalised Domain Name (IDN) homographs, ICANN has released a statement and asks the community to participate in an online public comment forum. Statements have also been issued by members of the ccTLD community through APTLD and CENTR, and through a communique from the Registry Constituency. All of these statements, and links to the public comment forum can be found at the ICANN IDN website: http://www.icann.org/topics/idn.html.
23 February 2005

ICANN Chairman of the Board Wins Prestigious Turing Award
ICANN Chairman, Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn were today awarded the 2004 A.M. Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery for pioneering work on internetworking, including the design and implementation of the Internet's basic communications protocols, TCP/IP, and for inspired leadership in networking.
16 February 2005

ICANN Engages Independent Evaluation Team to Review .NET Applications
ICANN has engaged Telcordia Technologies, Inc. to review and assess the applications submitted in response to the .NET Request for Proposals. The assessment process, already begun, will actively involve at least ten of the Telcordia technical and professional staff and include site visits to the qualified applicants. Telcordia Technologies, Inc. is a leading global provider of telecommunications software and services for IP, wireline, wireless and cable. Telcordia's Dr. David Sincoskie will lead a team that possesses 270 years of collective industry experience, with particular emphasis in networks, information databases, security and operations. Also posted: "Advisory Regarding Neutrality of Independent Evaluators".
7 February 2005

ICANN Opens Public Comment Forum on .NET Applications
21 January 2005

ICANN Receives Five Applications to Operate .NET
20 January 2005

ICANN Requests Public Comments on Experiences with Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy
12 January 2005

.NET RFP Question Period is Closed
7 January 2005