ICANN Just announced today that it will be holding its next meeting after Colombia in December 2010, in San Francisco in March 2011.
According to the announcement ICANN will have a budget of just short of $2 Million to spend on the March meeting:
“”Resolved the Board approves San Francisco, California as the location of the ICANN 2011 North America Meeting to be held from 13-18 March 2011, with a budget not to exceed US$1.941M”
Sounds like it should be a party, I mean very expensive meeting.
Party or not, this is the opportunity for all US domainers to get involved.
Some of us have participated in ICANN for a long time, but not many.
If you have never been to an ICANN meeting, I implore you to attend.
Go to the different group meetings, speak up, be heard.
The irony of all of this is that ICANN is funded completely by REGISTRANTS – the very group that really has no direct input into ICANN.
Show up. Step up. Be heard.
Cartoonz
I will be there
ICANN Lanyards for all!!!
They also announced that the time to respond to a URS would be reduced from 20 days to 14 days. Be careful about taking a 3 week vacation if you own a desirable domain name….
$2million for a meeting??? Must be one wild party.
Will there be a domain fest at that time???
What’s also amusing is that they’re going to remove the reference to “terrorism” in the background checks. Former cybersquatters can’t get a new gTLD. Terrorists? No problemo. 🙂
@Cartoonz
“ICANN is funded completely by REGISTRANTS”
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ICANN would likely claim they are funded by Verisign, Registrars, and “contracted parties”. Yes, the money may come from Registrants, but thru an agent.
For many Registrants, their money comes from advertisers & end-users. Those groups are even further removed from ICANN.
Who really “owns” your domain names ?
George is correct on the response front:
“URS timing: In response to public comment, change the time to respond to a complaint from 20 days to 14 days , with one opportunity for an extension of seven days if there is a good faith basis for such an extension.”
That is one amazing budget for a ‘meeting’ that we pay for
@roddy
“That is one amazing budget for a ‘meeting’…”
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The costs are kept LOW because it is all Non-Profit Public Benefit.
Also, local and global sponsors help to host the meetings.
http://twitter.com/sfbayisoc
As people quip, “What is the best NATION ? Donation”
In honesty to the truth, they say “a budget not to exceed US$1.941M”, it does not mean they will spend $2 Million dollars, it means that is their top budget, it could as well be that the meeting costs $1.
As long as they are transparent with their finances, I think it is ok.
Hacker
I bet the actual cost comes much closer to the $1.941M than to $1
The figure for the budget came from previous meetings
That figure does not include all of the private parties.
Since, SF is the home of the west coast office of Verisign*.
plus the home office for Google, Yahoo and many other major internet
related companies, there should be a lot of VIP parties, tours, etc.
Michael, when you attended the last Icann meeting, did you
attend any private parties?
George, do you plan on attending the SF meeting?
(* Verisign corporate hdqtrs is located in Dulles, VA, a suburb of
Washington, DC.)
I was very sorry to read about this, but I guess the bad economy has affected everyone…
“I wanted to go to the ICANN meeting, but I can’t…”
“there should be a lot of VIP parties, tours, etc.”
The parties really begin in .VEGAS at CES & AV in January
Note, Domainers are now announcing their parties and events just prior to SF
See also #AngelGate
As applicant for the community gTLD “.gay” we are especially happy about this choice, because the dotGay LLC has been founded in San Francisco. In June 2009.
There will be a FAT “dotGay” party, bet ya, and no tea – sorry.
Alexander Schubert
Founder dotGay LLC, VP Bus Dev
What?
No tea… what kind of party is it without tea?
That is no party at all.
Alexander, what good is a .gay party without teabagging?
How does one attend ? I’m in SF if anyone has any questions, needs recommendations, etc.
Hmmm……
Keywords I used in another order:
“bet ya”, Tea, Party
No tea, no tea-party!
Alexander
Attend the ICANN meeting: Register in time at http://meetings.icann.org/ once the website for SF is up: Typically during the Cartagena Meeting (5-10 December 2010). Then go there, it is for free!
Attend the dotGay-Party (no tea allowed, strict enforcement, t-scanners at the gates): That party will be announced at the meeting, and at http://www.twitter.com/dotgay. If anyone wants to be double-sure: Send a message to “party-icann-sf@dotgay.com”
Alexander
Alexander–
I was thinking of going to your party — but then I heard that it was going to be a drag! 😉
Seriously, see you in SF — and anyone involved in domaining should consider attending this event. BTW, there is no registration charge to attend an ICANN meeting.
Best, Philip
Having attended my first meeting in Brussels I can tell you its very interesting and you will meet a LOT of people that you will never meet at an industry show
Highly recommended for all domain holders large and small.
Well Mike,
be careful! A famous Eagles song says “You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave! “, and what they really meant wasn’t California, it was ICANN (how did they knew about ICANN in 76?).
You start to go there just for fun (I started mid 2004) and then eventually you start to fantasize about changing the DNS and all.
Hope to see some of you guys also at the Cartagena ICANN in December, that’s a holiday destination and everybody should REALLY have some fun!
Alexander
Hotel.California
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or was that Hotel.CA ?
“t-scanners at the gates”
So… LGB but no “T”?
@John Berryhill
Informed insiders claim… .TPT is the new .XXX
…
Keeping the Net Healthy: How Can We Develop an Immune System for the Internet?
Vinton Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google; one of the “fathers of the Internet”
Paul Mockapetris, Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board, Nominum; Creator, Domain Name System (DNS)
Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings & Angel Investor – Moderator
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10/04/10
Location: Quadrus Conference Center, 2400 Sandhill Rd., Menlo Park
Time: 6:15 p.m. check-in and networking reception, 7 p.m. program
@TheBigLieSociety
You don’t mean TPT
like in….
“Trailer Park Trash”
Do you? 🙂
“Trailer Park Trash”
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The ISOC and ICANN Meeting is split in two.
The “Trailer Park Trash” is headed to Colombia.
The Upper Echilon Elites meet that same week in San Francisco to plan March 2011.
Check out the ICANN web-site new material (spin)…
“Why are the meetings important?
“This is where Internet policy is born, formed, and decided. ICANN’s meetings are an integral part of the multi-stakeholder model as they provide an arena for global collaboration on important issues affecting the Internet’s naming and numbering systems. They are a testament to the bottom-up, consensus driven model that Internet Governance is based on – overseen by the world, for the world.”
I am new to this, when we say budget is around 2 Million is it only for covering members expenses that ICANN pay for, meeting rooms… or more please?
ICANN sets a budget for renting the convention center, traveling and housing expenses for staff, the costs of the gala and “music night”, transportation that is provided for attendees from their hotel to the meeting room and such.
All attendees have to pay their expenses to attend although ICANN does not charge admission
There’s an ICANN gravy train — *many* of the attendees have their expenses (travel, hotel, and per diems) paid for by ICANN (e.g. those on “fellowships”, staff, Board members, many in the ALAC, and many in the GNSO). They don’t want to get off the gravy train, and now the GAC wants to get on it too!
While that is certainly true, the majority has their trips paid for by their company, government, etc. And many have to pay everything themselves! I paid many, many of my 19 ICANN meetings out of my own pocket, and I tell you: IT BURNS A BIG HOLE! And ICANN makes addictive. Ask Mike (if he has recovered from the horror flight back to Miami)…..
Greetings
Alexander Schubert
Founder .gay
Alexander
Isn’t kidding about the flight back to Miami.
After the 3 searches for 1 1/2 hours, the 45 minutes standing waiting for the doors to open, the 1 hour still on the plane waiting for it to take off in light rain, even though there was no lightning, when it took off in the rain, the turbulence for at least 1/2 the flight that keep all stewards in their seat.
For a flight that was suppose to be 2:30 hours it was a 6 hour ordeal from start to finish
Thanks all, but seems still very big number unless I was staying in less expensive hotels and flying cheaper flights, this number for me I think can cover more than 200 person and I do not think ICANNpaying for this many!