The Most Notable Domain Conference is Happening in Seoul

ICANN #36 kicks off in Seoul.

Hundreds of domainers are gathering in Fresh York this stretch for the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. conference. It ought to be a great time and good for business. But the conference that will have a bigger long term impact on domainers’ pocketbooks is going on some 7,000 miles away in Seoul, South Korea.

That’s where ICANN is holding its 36th international meeting. A number of game-changing decisions will be influenced or decided at the meeting:

-Registry/registrar separation
-Price caps on fresh top level domain names, which will eventually affect .com
-Rollout of IDN country code domain names
-Rollout, timeline, and policies for introduction of fresh top level domains
-Fresh intellectual property protection measures for fresh TLDs…which will likely affect existing TLDs such as .com

Thanks to some of the work by ICANN staff (counting Kieren McCarthy), you don’t have to be in Seoul to get in on the action. See live video feeds, download presentations, read transcripts, and even submit questions on ICANN’s event web site.