ICANN’s 33rd meeting was a great event and what’s even more intense was heavily debated topics lurking around draft RFP applicant guidebook for the upcoming gTLDs.

It has been a tiring, enduring but yet a pleasant and productive week for RegistryASP team.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Tanzanica and Stacy from the ICANN organizing committee for making this meeting a successful one.

There are a few issue that i would like to share that took place during ICANN:-

• Interviews by Domaine.fr uploaded on ICANN’s Cairo website (Good work Christian)
• Photos on Flickr taken in Cairo
• A post that claims ICANN is defending Verisign and Network Solutions
• Icannwiki’s newsletter which contains a ton of information. It was distributed heavily throughout the ICANN conference. Fantastic information and good work Chris, for compiling all the issues.
• There might be an extension for public comment period of the draft RFP which could mean, the entire gTLD schedule might be delayed.
• There are initiatives to ease community TLDs which don’t have the proper financial backing (read USD75,000 per year to ICANN is a killer).
• Obama got elected as President of the United State and how does that affect the domain name industry?

The next ICANN’s meeting will be at Mexico city from 1st March - 6th March 2009 and the subsequent meeting will be held at Sydney, Australia and Seoul, Korea. At least after Mexico, we don’t need to hop on a jet and fly to the other side of the globe.

We’ll meet again in Mexico City.

Till then. Take care.

*Update : United States: Hundreds Of New TLDS Expected In Draft “Streamlined” Internet Naming Policy

Just thought of sharing. Enjoy!