A mechanism for participation in ICANN by individual Internet users (called “At-Large”) was created for people who want to be involved in issues that affect individual’s use of the Internet's domain name system*.* ICANN At-Large provides crucial contributions to ICANN’s work on such matters as guidance on how internationalized domain names (“local language” domain names) are implemented, and how additional new top-level domains (i.e. .info, .name, .museum, etc.) are introduced -- to name just two issues of importance in which At-Large is involved to support the Internet’s end-users. At-Large also is a leading voice for ICANN stakeholders on Internet governance issues, and helps raise awareness of key Internet resource issues that impact ICT development.
Globally, thousands of individual Internet users in all regions of the world are a part of At Large, thanks to their organizations being registered as "At-Large Structures" and more groups have registering all the time. Many more individuals and organizations are needed, however, to help advance the interests of individual Internet users worldwide.
