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Rod Beckstrom 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  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.

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

This announcement was sourced from ICANN .