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Get a sneak peek of the fresh ICANN.org website

Get a sneak peek of the fresh ICANN.org website

A beta of the fresh ICANN.org website is now live.

fresh icann.orgICANN is finally getting a fresh website, not just the minor facelifts it has received in recent years.

ICANN Labs is working on a fresh ICANN.org website and hopes to launch it publicly in February. It is right now running the site in parallel to the existing one at fresh.icann.org.

ICANN Labs is the same group working on experimental projects to help with community participation. Its test projects include ICANN Passport, ICANN Roundtable, ICANN Stream, and ICANN Peer Advising Network.

While I’m not sure the ICANN community is embracing any of these fresh projects, a complete overhaul of ICANN’s website has been on the wishlist of many community participants for a long time.

I remember being interviewed by an ICANN contractor a few years ago when the group was working on a fresh site design, but the initiative seemed to die when its internal champion left.

ICANN Labs is seeking community input as it continues to iterate on the fresh site.

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