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ICANN loves how they do it down in Puerto Rico

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Group schedules a 2020 meeting for San Juan.

Picture of building in Puerto Rico with the words "that's how we do it down in Puerto Rico"

ICANN has selected San Juan, Puerto Rico, for its first meeting of 2022. The meeting will take place March 5-10, 2022.

The non-profit domain industry overseer held a meeting in San Juan last year. It originally scheduled a meeting for 2016, but that was pushed back due to the Zika virus outbreak. Hurricane Maria almost forced ICANN to push back its re-scheduled date, but it was, fortunately, able to hold an event there in 2018.

With this latest announcement, ICANN’s meeting slate is now scheduled out for the next seven meetings:

  1. #67 – Cancun March 7-12, 2020
  2. #68 – Kuala Lumpur June 22-25, 2020
  3. #69 – Hamburg October 17-22, 2020
  4. #70 – Cancun March 20-25, 2021
  5. #71 – The Hague June 14-17, 2021
  6. #72 – Seattle October 23-28
  7. #73 – San Juan, PR March 5-10, 2022

ICANN selects Cancun, Kuala Lumpur and Hamburg for 2020 meetings

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Spring break in Mexico, anyone?

The ICANN board has selected its meeting locations for the group’s 2020 meeting slate.

The first stop will be the Cancun International Convention Center in Mexico for meeting #67 from March 7-12, 2020. You might notice that those dates coincide with some schools’ spring breaks. I predict a few snarky headlines about ICANN heading to Cancun for a Spring Break boondoggle.

The 2020 Community Forum, ICANN 68, will be held at at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center in Malaysia June 22-25, 2020. It is being hosted by Dr. Suhaidi Hassan of the Internet Society Malaysia Chapter.

ICANN 69 will be in Hamburg, Germany at the Congress Center October 17-22, 2020. It will be hosted by eco association, DENIC and the City of Hamburg at the Congress Center Hamburg.

ICANN selects Panama for June 2016 meeting

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Panama City selected for next summer’s meeting.

ICANN’s summer meeting next year will take place in Panama City, Panama. The decision was made during a board meeting earlier this week.

I think this meeting will draw a lot of domain name investors. Many already live in Panama (such as Andrew Rosener of Media Options) and many more run their businesses out of the country.

There are two ICANN meetings between now and the Panama meeting. The first takes place later this month in Dublin, Ireland, home to many domain name companies. (Between Ireland and Panama, there seems to be a tax haven theme to ICANN’s meeting locations.) Then in March, ICANN travels to Marrakech. The Marrakech meeting was supposed to take place this year but was moved due to the ebola scare.

After the Panama meeting, ICANN travels to San Juan, Puerto Rico for its fall 2016 meeting.

I’m not going to make it to the Dublin meeting this month, but I think I’ll make plans for Panama.

Ebola forces ICANN to move meeting from Morocco to Singapore

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Without specifically citing Ebola, ICANN moves meeting due to Ebola-inflicted attendance concerns.

That “confidential agenda item” at last week’s ICANN Board meeting? A decision to move the next ICANN meeting, which was scheduled for Morocco in February. It will be held in Singapore instead.

Without specifically citing Ebola, the board resolved to move the meeting due to attendance concerns. In addition to people being scared of traveling to the region and catching Ebola, there was concern that travel bans might prevent people from Africa attending:

Similarly, hosting a meeting in the African region with significant groups of Africans likely not able to attend negates the rationale behind ICANN’s regional rotation of meetings.

ICANN plans to hold the meeting in Morocco next year, instead.

It’s worth noting that attendees of this year’s ICANN meeting in Los Angeles were probably as close to an actual transmission of Ebola (Dallas) as anyone in Marrakech is, at least as of right now.

I don’t think I’ll attend the Singapore meeting. I’ve been to the last two ICANN meetings and will have just attended the NamesCon conference one month before the Singapore meeting. There’s also the potential of the summer meeting being somewhat close to the United States.

Which ICANN sessions domainers should attend

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A quick look at relevant sessions at this week’s ICANN conference.

ICANN LAICANN 51 formally kicks off today in Los Angeles. There are a lot of domain name investors in attendance, so I created a quick guide to sessions that might be interesting to them. Even if you aren’t in L.A., ICANN has excellent online participation tools that make it almost easier to attend virtually than in person.

Here are my picks. Click here to continue reading and see the sessions