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ICANN 84

Event
Process ICANN
Date Oct. 25, 2025 – Oct. 30, 2025
Region EUR
Country
  • Ireland
City Dublin
Venue The Convention Centre Dublin
Organizer INEX
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ICANN 84 was the organization's 27th Annual General Meeting (AGM), being held in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, from 25 to 30 October 2025, at the Convention Centre Dublin (CCD).[1] It was ICANN’s second public meeting in the city, following ICANN 54 in 2015. It attracted 1,566 participants from 129 countries and territories according to ICANN’s “By the Numbers” report.[2]

Background[edit | edit source]

In September 2024, ICANN announced that ICANN 84 would be held in Muscat, Oman, hosted by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Oman at the Oman Convention and Exhibition Centre.[3]

On 30 June 2025, ICANN announced that the meeting would be relocated from Muscat to Dublin due to regional airspace disruptions and related travel uncertainties, while keeping the original dates unchanged. Meeting hosting responsibilities were taken over by the Internet Neutral Exchange (INEX).[4] The background to that decision was the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian conflict in the Gaza region.

Prep Week[edit | edit source]

ICANN 84 Prep Week was held from 13 to 15 October 2025 and consisted of 12 online sessions.[5] Key topics included:

GNSO policy activities at ICANN 84[edit | edit source]

  • DNS Abuse: DNS Abuse remained a dominant theme. The Policy Outlook Report and GNSO Policy Briefing flagged the GNSO’s work on a DNS Abuse Preliminary Issue Report and potential PDPs.[8][9] A dedicated GNSO DNS Abuse Work Session in Dublin focused on scoping and prioritising high-impact topics, including checks on associated domains, obligations for API users and resellers, and mitigation of botnet-generated domain batches.[10][11]
  • Registration Data Request Service (RDRS) and access to registration data: ICANN 84 built on the two-year RDRS pilot, with Prep Week and in-meeting sessions examining pilot results and the future of the service. Discussions focused on whether and how RDRS should evolve and its relationship to broader registration data policy work.[7][10]
  • New gTLD Program: Next Round: The New gTLD Program Next Round implementation featured prominently in several ICANN 84 sessions, including GAC capacity-building and GDS IRT meetings.[7][12] Community reporting emphasised the centrality of subsequent rounds and dot-brand issues.[11]
  • Latin Script Diacritics PDP and IDNs: Multiple sessions of the Latin Script Diacritics (LD) PDP Working Group under the GNSO were carried out, as well as IDN-related capacity-building content, reflecting ongoing GNSO work on IDNs and scripts ahead of the Next Round.[6][9]
  • Statements of Interest (SOI) and PPSAI: Community recaps by registrars highlighted discussions on Statements of Interest requirements and issues around Privacy and Proxy Services Accreditation (PPSAI) within the GNSO framework.[10]
  • Reviews and ICANN accountability: The “Review of Reviews” was a highlight, exploring how reviews and the CIP cycle might evolve, with GNSO participation as one of the key stakeholders.[8][13]

Related events and reporting[edit | edit source]

Several organisations and community groups produced post-meeting readouts and recaps of ICANN 84:

  • The eco Association of the Internet Industry and ICANN organised an "ICANN84 Readout – Highlights & Take-Aways from the Annual General Meeting" webinar summarising key topics from the 27th AGM in Dublin.[14]
  • EuroDNS published an overview focusing on DNS Abuse, subsequent rounds of new gTLDs, and enforcement and accountability discussions.[11]
  • OpenSRS highlighted RDRS, DNS Abuse PDP scoping, Statements of Interest, and PPSAI issues as key take-aways for registrars.[10]
  • Fundació .cat produced a recap emphasising how the domain industry gathered around the New gTLD Program’s next round at ICANN 84.[12]
  • USCIB reported on business-sector engagement at the meeting, including a keynote address by the Ambassador of Kenya at the opening of ICANN 84.[15]
  • Additional readouts and podcasts were produced by actors such as Com Laude and EuroCloud, offering brand-owner and cloud-industry perspectives on the meeting.[16][17]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ ICANN Meetings, "ICANN84 Dublin Annual General Meeting" (accessed 2025-11-19).
  2. ↑ ICANN, "ICANN84 By the Numbers" (Facebook image post, 2025).
  3. ↑ ICANN, "ICANN84 Annual General Meeting Location Announced", 13 September 2024.
  4. ↑ ICANN, "ICANN84 Annual General Meeting Relocated", 30 June 2025.
  5. ↑ CADE Project, "ICANN publishes prep week schedule ahead of ICANN84 meeting", 15 September 2025.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 ICANN, "ICANN84 | Annual General Meeting: Print Schedule".
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 ICANN, "Cronograma da Semana de Preparação para o ICANN84 já disponível".
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 ICANN, "ICANN84 Policy Outlook Report".
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 GNSO, "GNSO: Policy Briefing ICANN84 Edition".
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 OpenSRS, "ICANN84 recap", November 2025.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 EuroDNS, "ICANN 84 – Highlights from Dublin", 10 November 2025.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Fundació .cat, "ICANN 84 Dublin: the domain industry gathers around the new round", 10 November 2025.
  13. ↑ GNSO Council, "GNSO Council Meetings – Confluence".
  14. ↑ eco/ICANN, "ICANN84 Readout – Highlights & Take-Aways from the Annual General Meeting (27th)".
  15. ↑ USCIB, "USCIB Brings Business Perspective to ICANN84 in Dublin", 29 October 2025.
  16. ↑ Com Laude, "The Com Laude Podcast (Ep-19) – Post ICANN84 Review and Discussion", 7 November 2025.
  17. ↑ EuroCloud, "ICANN84 Readout – Highlights & Take-Aways from the Annual General Meeting (27th)", 2025.

External links[edit | edit source]

Annual General Meeting

Generic Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board substantive policies relating to generic top-level domains and other responsibilities set forth in the Bylaws (ICANN Bylaws).

Governmental Advisory Committee. Considers and provides advice on the activities of ICANN as they relate to concerns of governments, particularly matters where there may be an interaction between ICANN's policies and various laws and international agreements or where they may affect public policy issues (ICANN Bylaws).

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