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<big>'''Welcome to ICANNWiki'''</big>, a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable guide to the world of [[ICANN]].  It is intended for use by people attending [[ICANN]] conferences as well as those following what's happening from afar.  So far we have [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles written and, of course, have plenty more [[ICANNWiki:Community portal|to do]]!


We are in the process of migrating content from [http://www.icannwiki.org the original site] to the new site, here at '''ICANNWiki.com'''.
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''Alexa Raad''' is the founder and CEO of [[Architelos]], a strategy and marketing consultancy that focuses on growth, brand and positioning, and business development for clients within the Internet and [[DNS]] sectors. Alexa has the unique distinction of having launched a new [[gTLD]] ([[.mobi]]) successfully, as well as having guided an incumbent gTLD ([[.org]]) to beating the market growth rates. Alexa served as the CEO of the [[.org]] registry, the [[PIR|Public Interest Registry]], from 2007 to 2010. She has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, payment, and Internet sectors, including 10 years in the domain names industry. She engineered [[.org]]'s brand re-positioning and growth, both in revenues and in market share, from 6 million in registrations to over 8 million, and from $35 million to $54 million from 2007 to 2010 respectively. During her tenure, [[PIR]] was named a FUTURE 50 company, a recognition reserved for the 50 fastest growing companies in the Greater Washington Area. In 2010, Ms. Raad led what was the largest [[DNSSEC]] implementation effort at that time...[[Alexa Raad|read more]]
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'''LogicBoxes''' is a Web Products and Consulting Company that specializes in providing private labeled, web presence and communication applications to [[ICANN]] [[Registrar]]s, Large Web Hosts, Domain Resellers, ISPs and [[Telco]]s. In addition, it also offers consulting and a turnkey [[SaaS]] platform which provides end-to-end business automation to its clients. It is a business unit of the [[Directi]] Group, and was founded in 2003 by [[Bhavin Turakhia]]. It provides [[ERP]] solutions that handle sales, marketing, finance, billing and provisioning automation for domain registrars. Registrars can connect to [[gTLD]]s and [[ccTLD]] registries through their platforms. It is based in Mumbai, India and operates out the Directi Headquarters, Directiplex. LogicBoxes also has employees in China, UAE and USA as part of the resources it shares with the Directi Group. In the first quarter of 2011, LogicBoxes powered over 5.5 million domains through 85+ registrars in 32 countries. It is currently the largest outsourced registrar platform provider, and one of the few companies that works exclusively in this specialization...[[LogicBoxes|read more]]
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<center><table style="background-color:transparent"><tr><td>[[Image:BillAndHill.jpg|thumb|250px|Bill and Hill in San Francisco]]</td><td>[[Image:Maori_Mural.jpg|thumb|345px|Vint Cerf dancing with the Maori]]</td><td>[[Image:Vint_farewell_2.jpg|thumb|250px|Vint Cerf says farewell to LA]]</td></tr></table></center>
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Revision as of 07:07, 28 August 2024

ICANNWiki is a not-for-profit organization supporting the collaborative development of articles about ICANN and Internet Governance-related topics, currently featuring 8,700 entries. It aims to provide neutral information that takes all perspectives into consideration. Want to help? Request an account today! ICANNWiki is independent of ICANN. Any donations made to us are used only to maintain this platform.

Where to start

Getting started is as simple as requesting an account, which will be approved as long as it does not appear to be intended for spam or malice. Then, make sure to read our short content guide to get a feel for what belongs in the wiki. You may also want to have a look at some data source suggestions on where to find reliable data. That's it, happy editing!

Current Focus

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Our focus this season is: ccTLDs. Our community is working together on surfacing information about these stakeholders, including going over documents, blog posts, Working Groups (including the already great article on Working Groups!), and all other relevant information.

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