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| Rod Beckstrom, outgoing president, ICANN |
Director of Global Media Affairs, Mr. Brad
White who confirmed this development to ITRealms Online said that the target
date would be for the release of applications list for the new generic top-level
domains, specifying who has applied for which domain names.
The outgoing President and chief executive
officer of ICANN, Mr. Rod Beckstrom was quoted as saying that the plan had
always been to publish the list of applied-for strings approximately two weeks
after the close of the April 12 application window.
“Setting a target date gives people the
opportunity to plan for this highly anticipated event,” he declared.
Beckstrom also noted that if ICANN receives
an overwhelming number of applications to process, publication of the list of
strings could be postponed.
ITRealms Online recalls that ICANN’s
mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet, noting that
in order to reach another person on the Internet every Internet user has to type
an address into their computer or a device; a name or a number.
ICANN explained that that address has to be
unique so computers to know where to find each other, therefore, ICANN
coordinates these unique identifiers across the world, which means that without
coordination there would be no one global Internet.
Formed in 1998, ICANN is a not-for-profit
public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated
to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable.
Remmy Nweke
ITREALMS Online ... delivering news for ICT4D
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