Mark your Calendar for March 2011: Coming to America

ICANN meeting coming to America next Spring.

For the first time in a long time ICANN will hold its international meeting in the United States March 13-18, 2011.
That means U.S. residents won’t have to make a trip that involves three plane hops and 12 different time zones to attend the meeting.

You probably don’t pay attention to ICANN policy that much if you’re a domainer. You aren’t excited by policy. You probably don’t care much, either. That has been my experience whenever I post regarding an notable ICANN comment period and two or three people act on it.

You probably won’t be excited regarding the sessions at this event. But when was the last time you went to a conference for the sessions? Maybe a trip to San Francisco will get you excited. The truth is the domainer community needs to show up in force to remind ICANN and its constituents that we exist. We can only complain regarding not having a voice so much. We can only neglect to contribute to comment periods so often.

And March’s meeting will be huge given the imminent opening of the application period for fresh top level domain names.

Here’s a chance to be there, in the thick of it. Mark your calendar.