Also, Sub-Saharan Africa was part of its region until April 2005, when AfriNIC was officially recognized by ICANN as the fifth Regional Internet Registry.

At the end of 2007 Harald Alvestrand was selected for the ICANN Board., where he remained until December 2010.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN, ) is a nonprofit private organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States, that was created on September 18, 1998, and incorporated on September 30, 1998 to oversee a number of Internet-related tasks previously performed directly on behalf of the U. S. government by other organizations, notably the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ( IANA ), which ICANN now operates.

ICANN was incorporated in California on September 30, 1998, with leading entrepreneurs and philanthropist Esther Dyson as founding chairwoman.

ICANN was established in California due to the presence of Jon Postel, who was a founder of ICANN and was set to be its first CTO prior to his unexpected death.

Per its original Bylaws, primary responsibility for policy formation in ICANN was to be delegated to three supporting organizations ( Address Supporting Organization, Domain Name Supporting Organization, and Protocol Supporting Organization ), each of which was to develop and recommend substantive policies and procedures for the management of the identifiers within their respective scope.

The context of ICANN's relationship with the U. S. government was clarified on September 29, 2006 when ICANN signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with the United States Department of Commerce ( DOC ).

In the Memorandum of Understanding that set up the relationship between ICANN and the U. S. government, ICANN was given a mandate requiring that it operate " in a bottom up, consensus driven, democratic manner.

Some have attempted to argue that ICANN was never given the authority to decide policy, e. g., choose new TLDs or shut out other interested parties who refuse to pay ICANN's US $ 185, 000 fee, but was to be a technical caretaker.

One task that ICANN was asked to do was to address the issue of domain name ownership resolution for generic top-level domains ( gTLDs ).

Joyce Reynolds served as part of the editorial team of the Request For Comments series from 1987 to 2006, and also performed the IANA function with Jon Postel until this was transferred to ICANN, and worked with ICANN in this role until 2001, while remaining an employee of ISI.

Vinton Cerf was instrumental in the funding and formation of ICANN from the start.

* 1998 – ICANN is formed.

An ICANN working group focused on country code domain names at the top level was formed in November 2007 and promoted jointly by the country code supporting organization and the Governmental Advisory Committee.

* 2001-03: ICANN Board IDN Working Group formed

* 2001-11: ICANN IDN Committee formed

The < tt > coop </ tt > TLD was proposed by the National Cooperative Business Association ( NCBA ) as a response to the announcement by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ( ICANN ) in late 2000 of a phased release of seven new generic top-level domains in an expansion of the Internet domain name space.

ICANN's Government Advisory Committee is currently set up to provide advice to ICANN regarding public policy issues and has participation by many of the world's governments.

According to ICANN policy, a domain registrant must agree to be bound by the UDRP — they cannot get a domain name without agreeing to this.

During the 32nd International Public ICANN Meeting in Paris in 2008, ICANN started a new process of TLD naming policy to take a " significant step forward on the introduction of new generic top-level domains.

* 2006-11: ICANN GNSO IDN Working Group created to discuss policy implications of IDN TLDs.

* that the redirection was contrary to the proper operation of the DNS, ICANN policy, and the Internet architecture in general ;

ICANN is the chief rule-making body for internet policy worldwide.

ICANN does not see a way to approve the. EH ccTLD delegation to one of the applicants without violating its long-standing policy unless the contesting parties are able to reach an agreement. The two applicants remain armed belligerents ; no such agreement has been reached and the domain remains inactive.

ICANN has implemented a policy prohibiting any potential internationalized TLD from choosing letters that could resemble an existing Latin TLD and thus be used for homograph attacks.

Its policy has been developed by ICANN and Fundació puntCAT.

ICANN has approved the Internationalizing Domain Names in Applications ( IDNA ) system, which maps Unicode strings into the valid DNS character set using Punycode.

In 2009 ICANN approved the installation of IDN country code top-level domains.

ICANN is responsible for the coordination of the global Internet's systems of unique identifiers and, in particular, ensuring its stable and secure operation.

The actual technical maintenance work of maintenance of the central Internet address pools and DNS root registries ICANN performs pursuant to the " IANA function " contract.

On September 29, 2006, ICANN signed a new agreement with the United States Department of Commerce ( DOC ) that moves the private organization towards full management of the Internet's system of centrally coordinated identifiers through the multi-stakeholder model of consultation that ICANN represents.

Before the establishment of ICANN, the Government of the United States controlled the domain name system of the Internet.

The original mandate for ICANN came from the United States government, spanning the presidential administrations of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

ICANN remains in the same building where he worked, which is home to an office of the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California.

As expected, the Regional Internet Registries and the IETF agreed to serve as the Address Supporting Organization and Protocol Supporting Organization respectively, and ICANN issued a call for interested parties to propose the structure and composition of the Domain Name Supporting Organization.

On 4 March 1999, the ICANN Board, based in part on the DNSO proposals received, decided instead on an alternate construction for DNSO which delineated specific constituencies.

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