June 15th, 2011 By: THN News
(The Hosting News) – Rod Beckstrom, ICANN’s President and Chief Executive Officer will join Board Chair Peter Dengate Thrush and Senior Vice President Kurt Pritz at news conference immediately following an historic special meeting of the ICANN Board of Directors to decide the future of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs).
The potential expansion of new gTLDs could mark one of the biggest changes ever to the Internet’s Domain Name System.
The news conference and the preceding Board meeting will occur on 20 June at the launch of ICANN’s 41st public meeting in Singapore.
In addition to taking journalists’ questions on gTLDs at the Monday news conference, the three ICANN leaders will also answer questions on other subjects, ranging from IPv6 implementation to DNSSEC adoption.
Journalists who will not be present at the Singapore meeting are invited to participate in the news conference via a live video web stream or an international toll-free telephone connection.
A recording of the news conference will be posted to the press page of the ICANN web site (http://www.icann.org/en/press/) as soon after the event as possible.
Here are the details:
WHAT: News Conference
WHO: Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO; Peter Dengate Thrush, Board Chair; Kurt Pritz, Senior Vice President
WHEN: Monday, 20 June 2011, 1330-1430 Singapore (0530 UTC).
WHERE: Swissôtel The Stamford, VIP Lounge (4th Floor), 2 Stamford Road, Singapore
OFF-SITE ACCESS: Journalists from around the world can participate in the news conference via remote access.
- A live video webcast may be accessed at http://icann.adobeconnect.com/sin41-press.
- Telephone access may be obtained by dialling an international toll-free number obtain from this list www.adigo.com/icann. The toll free access number in the U.S. is +1.800.550.6865. Once you have reached the conferencing center, dial 25594.
SINGAPORE MEETING PRESS KIT: http://www.icann.org/en/press/
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Brad White, ICANN Director of Global Media Affairs, Washington, D.C.
Tel. +1 (202) 570 7118, brad.white@icann.org
Andrew Robertson, Edelman Public Relations, London, U.K.
Tel. + 44 (7811) 341 945, andrew.Robertson@edelman.com
About ICANN:
ICANN’s mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet.
To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer – a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other.
ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world.
Without that coordination we wouldn’t have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998.
It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers.
ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet.
But through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet. For more information please visit: www.icann.org.
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