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<span style="font-size:150%; color:#FFFFFF; text-align:center;">Welcome to [[ICANNWiki|<span style="color:#FFFFFF;">ICANNWiki</span>]]</span></div>

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<center><center><span style="font-size:1.7em;font-weight:bold;color:#022C48;">What is ICANN?</span></center><br />[[File:ICANNLogo.png|200px|center|link=https://icannwiki.com/ICANN]]</center><br />

'''ICANN59''' is being held from '''26-29 June 2017''' at the The Sandton Convention Center in '''Johannesburg, South Africa'''. It marks the Meeting B of 2017, which is the Policy Forum under [[ICANN]]'s new meeting structure. [[ICANN Meetings|ICANN meetings]] provide an opportunity for a diverse set of stakeholders across the world to come together and discuss and develop policies on the Internet's domain name system.  

'''[[ICANN|Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers]] (ICANN)''' is a global multi-stakeholder organization that was created an 1998 and empowered through actions by the U.S. government and its [[DOC|Department of Commerce]]. Its primary responsibility is to manage the Internet's core infrastructure, which consists of IP addresses, domain names, and root servers. It coordinates the Internet's [[DNS]], [[IP]] addresses and [[ASN|autonomous system numbers]], which involves a continued management of these evolving systems and the protocols that underly them.

In addition to the all of the important issues covered during this meeting, [[ICANNWiki]] has a new limited edition Playing Card decks, the ICANNWiki Quickie, the caricature badges and of course our [[Edit-a-thon - ICANN 58|Edit-a-thon]].

On 1 October 2016, the oversight of ICANN transitioned from the U.S. government to the private sector, which will govern the Internet's unique identifiers through the multistakeholder model.

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