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The Commercial Business Users Constituency, also called the Business Constituency or BC is the voice of commercial Internet users within ICANN – the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. These are the companies that use the unique identifiers that ICANN coordinates or manages.
The (BC) represents the position and interests of small, medium, large, multinational enterprises and trade/professional business associations within ICANN’s gNSO policy development process, and also expresses consensus views on ICANN governance issues and activities according the consensus views of the BC’s membership.
BC membership is approximately 60 members, with a significant number of trade/professional associations, whose membership reaches over 50,000 companies, and indirectly over 1.5 million; and earlier survey of BC members indicated that approximately 88% of these members are small and medium enterprises (SMEs),from many different countries, and reaching all five ICANN regions. It is one of the three Constituencies under the Commercial Stakeholders Group (CSG) in the Non-Contracted Parties House under ICANN's GNSO. It was set forth by the ICANN Bylaws
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