ICANN #36 kicks off in Seoul.
Hundreds of domainers are gathering in New York this week for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference. It should be a great time and good for business. But the conference that will have a bigger long term impact on domainers’ pocketbooks is going on some 7,000 miles away in Seoul, South Korea.
That’s where ICANN is holding its 36th international meeting. A number of game-changing decisions will be influenced or decided at the meeting:
-Registry/registrar separation
-Price caps on new top level domain names, which will eventually affect .com
-Rollout of IDN country code domain names
-Rollout, timeline, and policies for introduction of new top level domains
-New intellectual property protection measures for new TLDs…which will likely affect existing TLDs such as .com
Thanks to some of the work by ICANN staff (including Kieren McCarthy), you don’t have to be in Seoul to get in on the action. See live video feeds, download presentations, read transcripts, and even submit questions on ICANN’s event web site.
IDN gTLD's says
Roll out should include IDN gTLD’s or ICANN did practically nothing by only giving governments domains in they’re native language.
Adam says
But do they have the shark tank. . . errrr I mean test track ?
Andrew Allemann says
Adam – I’m sure Pritz feels a bit like he’s in a shark tank 🙂
Philip Corwin says
Thanks for noting the importance of this meeting. I am here in Seoul representing ICA members and spending 8-plus hours per day in 7 days of meetings watching and speaking out for their interests. I will be posting regular updates on what is taking place here at http://www.internetcommerce.org .
I would hope that those among the hundreds of domainers gathering at TRAFFIC NYC who are not yet members of ICA will reconsider that lack of support, given the importance of the issues being debated here and the fact that wrong decisions by ICANN could destroy much of the value of their portfolios.