Just before the Sydney meeting in June we announced we were running a usability study on the main ICANN website at icann.org and opened a survey to the community to provide their feedback. This is an update on that process just prior to the next meeting in Seoul, starting on Monday.
Since June, ICANN staff has [...]

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The public forum in Seoul will take place on Thursday 29 October. You can find the latest information on the session webpage at http://sel.icann.org/public-forum.
Session goals and outcomes:
The public forum is the community’s opportunity to make comments on the main topics in front of ICANN at each meeting directly to the Board and in front of [...]

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An online question box where community members can ask questions directly to the ICANN Board and staff is open.
The question box will take questions until Wednesday 14 October in preparation for the public forum at ICANN’s international public meeting in Sydney on Thursday 29 October.
Questions are limited to two per individual and 50 words in [...]

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If you are a regular ICANN community member, it is likely you are currently feeling overwhelmed by the amount of material that has appeared in the past week. So here is a quick guide to help make sense of it all.
Sections are:

JPA/Affirmation
Applicant Guidebook/new gTLDs
Fast Track/IDNs
Public comment periods
Seoul meeting
And the remainder

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ICANN ha firmado un documento de afirmación con el Departamento de Comercio de los Estados Unidos. Este acuerdo es histórico ya que valida el modelo de ICANN de una vez por todas y a nivel internacional.
Cuando ICANN fue creada hace más de una década, nació como una organización fragil y experimental. Su evolución se [...]

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At the joint meeting of ICANN’s advisory committees and supporting organizations in Sydney, a number of core issues and corresponding possible solutions were discussed and pulled into a summary document.
We have put that document out in a radically different public comment period to allow for as much community discussion and collaboration as possible.
The comment [...]

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We have posted photos taken at the Sydney Gala last month. You should be able to see them in a slideshow below.
You can also see them and download them directly from Flickr by following this link. Click on the photo you want, click “All Sizes” and you are able to download it in a [...]

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Updated: ICANN’s new gTLD team are on the road at the moment, spreading the word about the historic expansion of the Internet’s domain name space that we as an organization have been working on for four years or so.
Yesterday, they were in New York; tomorrow, they’ll be in London. Then Hong Kong on 24 [...]

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As many of you will hopefully be aware, we have new video software in place and most visible on our video webpage at, yes, http://icann.org/video/. Videos are uploaded and tagged and so more easily discoverable.
Each meeting’s videos are also archived on a video page on that meeting’s website e.g. http://syd.icann.org/video. And since we now have [...]

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