IP Mirror was a proud Silver Sponsor of ICANN 34th Meeting, Mexico City

ICANN 34th International Public Meeting is the first of three held annually from 1st – 6th March 2009 to conduct policy development and outreach. It was hosted by ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), the Mexican Internet Association (AMIPCI), the Network Information Center (NIC) Mexico, and the Internet Society (ISOC) Mexico.

Being a Silver Sponsor, IP Mirror had a great booth setup which attracted many interests and partnerships from the global internet community. Several key issues and themes also evolved over the course of the meeting, but probably the most newsworthy issue discussed was the decision to launch the new gTLD application.

Currently, new registrations are limited to a set of gTLDs that had been approved by ICANN, such as .com, .net, .org, etc but with the new program, organizations will be able to apply to reserve their own gTLD. For example, Microsoft could apply for .MSN, Google for .GOOGLE, or New York City for .NYC. ICANN is currently aiming to have applications for new gTLD to be received in December 2009 at the earliest or in the first quarter of 2010.

2009 ICANN Mexico