Rod Beckstrom,ICANN’s President and CEO and Peter Dengate Thrush answered reporters ’ questions surrounding the controversial expansion of generic top-level domains names (gTLDs) during an opening news conference in Cartagena, Colombia.
The News conference followed the receipt of ICANN by a critical letter from the U.S. government expressing concern about the launch of new gTLDs.
To hear an audio recording of the news conference, go here .
About ICANN:
ICANN’s mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers.