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ICANN general meeting will (unsurprisingly) be virtual

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All meetings this year will occur virtually.

ICANN logo ICANN has decided that its Annual General Meeting in October will be held virtually.

ICANN69 was originally scheduled to be held in Hamburg, Germany. But, like the March meeting and this month’s Policy Forum, the domain overseer is moving it online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The virtual meeting will be held October 17-22.

ICANN’s events attract a diverse group of people from all over the world. Even if attendees weren’t concerned about the virus, current travel and visa restrictions would make it challenging for many people to attend.

Hopefully, ICANN will be able to resume in-person meetings sometime next year. It has meetings scheduled for March 2021 (Cancun), June (The Hague) and October (Seattle).

ICANN policy wonks to meet online rather than Kuala Lumpur

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Malaysia meeting will be moved online due to Covid-19.

Picture of twin towers in Kuala Lumpur with the words "ICANN Kuala Lumpur Meeting"

ICANN has formally canceled its in-person Policy Forum scheduled for Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in June, due to Covid-19. It will hold the event online instead.

The non-profit held its meeting scheduled for Cancun this past March online, too. Reviews of the online event were generally good given the circumstances.

After the Policy Forum, the Annual General Meeting is slated to take place in Hamburg in October. That meeting, as well as a “return” to Cancun in March of next year, should be considered tentative at this point.

In other words, make sure your travel arrangements are refundable.

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.

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