ICANNWiki FAQs

This page lists frequently asked questions about ICANNWiki. If you do not find your question answered here or there, please feel free to contact us.

Why sponsor ICANNWiki?

• Community good
• Aligns with purpose
• Highlights your company as supporting the industry in a very positive manner

What does ICANNWiki do?

Since 2006, ICW has provided information about the people, entities, and policies that comprise ICANN and IG in general, explained developments in the ICANN and domain name industry, and sparked conversation and community engagement

• Most read articles
• People articles
• Topical articles

What has ICANNWiki been up to lately?

Since January 2021, ICW focused on _____________

• Active Main Page:
  • Featured articles
  • In the news
• Portals:
  • Entities, People, Terms
  • Icann Meetings, history, reviews
  • ICANN community, Board, and Org,
• Topical: currently: DNS, DNS Abuse, DNS Abuse Responses

What are the plans for ICANNWiki's future?

Broadly make more knowledge more freely available and continue preventing censorship, upholding free expression. Specifically, continue to ensure internet governance policies, the domain name industry, and information about the community are synthesized

• More great content
• More community engagement

Why do you need the money?

• Sustainability, day-to-day operation of content creation and editing, and staff work on our ICANNWiki:Community portal community support
• New staff would help us include grantmaking and enhance partnerships with global organizations.

adapt to the shifting trends in technology

Where does the money go?

• Compensation for 2 full-time staff members
• Travel and Giveaways at ICANN Meetings
• Legal and accounting

How does it work?

Like Wikipedia, it relies on wiki technology and everyone can access the information that is synthesized, clarified, and up-to-date, written from a neutral point of view. Like the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, it serves a niche audience and uses editors and a community of contributors with specialized knowledge. designed so that each entry is maintained, verified, (sometimes refereed) by editors and members of a sort of curated community members, all of whom have some interest or connection to IG, DNS industry, or technical standards.