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United States Department of Commerce Executes Contract for Technical Management of the Internet with ICANN
The United States Department of Commerce has executed a new contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to continue to perform the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) function...
15 August 2006

ICANN Nominating Committee Progress
After the revised close of the call for candidates for the ICANN Board, GNSO council, ccNSO Council and Interim ALAC, the Nominating Committee has received 89 Statements of Interest from members of the ICANN community and others interested in the positions...
9 August 2006

Proposed .BIZ, .INFO AND .ORG gTLD Registry Agreements
On 27 June 2006, ICANN posted for public information proposed new registry agreements for the operation of each of the .BIZ, .INFO and .ORG registries...
28 July 2006

ICANN Posts Proposed Registry Agreement for Designation of the .ASIA Registry
On 18 July 2006, ICANN's Board of Directors approved the posting for public comment of the proposed registry agreement between ICANN and DotAsia Organisation Limited. If approved by the ICANN Board, the agreement (Appendices) would designate DotAsia as the registry operator for the newly designated .ASIA registry. Additional information regarding the .ASIA application can be found at: http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/...
28 July 2006

Comments Sought on New gTLD Initial Report
The GNSO Council's Committee on the introduction of new top level domains has released its Initial Report as part of ICANN's policy development process. This Report is the product of a long series of consultations and meetings about the Terms of Reference...
28 July 2006

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