Description

This working group will prepare a statement of the At-Large Community with respect to the introduction of new generic Top Level Domains (“gTLDs”)

ICANN’s communities have been working for years on the process by which new Generic Top-Level Domains will be introduced. There are currently only a few gTLDs (like .com, .net, .org) and the new process would allow the introduction of many, many more over the course of time.

Currently, the ICANN community is reviewing and commenting upon a set of documents detailing how the process of adding new gTLDs would work. The next round of consultations on the process is expected to get underway near the start of the At-Large Summit, and will be a major area of work for ICANN over the course of 2009 and beyond.

It is widely believe that the addition of potentially hundreds, or thousands, of new gTLDs will have important impacts on how Internet end-users interact with the Internet. The At-Large community has made many statements in the past about new gTLDs and is preparing to make further comments, especially during 2009. You may find multilingual versions of previous At-Large statements at: http://www.atlarge.icann.org/en/correspondence]

You can find more information on the new gTLD programme at: http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-23oct08-en.htm

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WG3 Officers and Members

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Working Group Languages

Documents will be available in English, Spanish, and French, however the meetings of the Working Group will be conducted in English.

Email List

Those interested are welcome to join the mailing list for Working Group 3 at this URL.

Adobe Connect Room

Adobe Connect is an application which allows you to look at shared documents and present your computer screen to other working group members. It will be active until the end of the At-Large summit: http://icann.na3.acrobat.com/summit-wg3/

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