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Fadi Chehadé Stepping Down As ICANN President & CEO in March 2016

May 21, 2015 by Michael Berkens

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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) today announced that President and CEO Fadi Chehadé has informed the Board he will be stepping down in  March 2016 to move into a new career in the private sector (outside the Domain Name Industry).

At the request of the Board, Chehadé will be available to work closely with ICANN after March 2016 to support the transition to a new leader, as well as to advise the Board on any issue they require including the implementation of the IANA Stewardship Transition from the US Government to ICANN and the technical operating community.

“I am deeply committed to working with the Board, our staff, and our community to continue ICANN’s mission as we still have much to accomplish,” said Chehadé. “During the remaining 10 months of my tenure, it’s business-as-usual. My priority remains to continue strengthening ICANN’s operations and services to the global community.”

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About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. steve brady says

    May 21, 2015 at 9:52 am

    May Chehade’s successor be a smooth operator.

  2. ICANNT says

    May 21, 2015 at 11:29 am

    Good bye and Good Riddance! The internet was built using American tax dollars. It was built by Americans for Americans. It was built, in part, to make America stronger in an effort to withstand a nuclear attack.

    For this turkey to come along and want to give it away to the rest of the world as a complimentary gift is laughable. Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out buddy.

    • h4ck3r says

      May 21, 2015 at 8:28 pm

      Sir Timothy John “Tim” Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA, DFBCS, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web.

      • Irving says

        May 22, 2015 at 6:57 am

        Respectfully disagree h4ck3r. He is right. The Web was formerly known as the Arpanet, a US military project.

        • h4ck3r says

          May 22, 2015 at 1:50 pm

          Yes, ARPANET was funded by US. To most people “The Internet” started with the transition to the World Wide Web which happened many years after ARPANET originated and was not done by Americans for Americans using American tax payer dollars.

          If you want to play the game of working upstream to the source to make that claim you should also be aware that ARPANET was built on packet switched networking – that term originated in Wales to a Donald Davies and the Internet can be directly traced back to his work.

          Go back further and you can get to Alan Turing and then to Babbage……etc.

          The idea of the Internet being US for US is a tragic misrepresentation of history. What’s next? It was invented by Al Gore, after all? If it wasn’t for the US we’d all be speaking German?

    • rm -fr * says

      May 22, 2015 at 11:16 am

      If you are going to call someone a Turkey, at least sign your name, please.
      You are right, built for and for Americans with American taxes.
      Why do you think, the us congress in its majority, wants this to happen ?
      Had you kept it: “for americans, shove it” … then the farthest email you would be sending, would not require a translation. domestic email only. then you would have
      a spanoff network, for all those non-us “Turkeys” …… cyberattacks would be even higher. DNS would not be a standard and your domain name would be worth zero.
      it is of national security interest, to have it controlled, but what is the point of controlling something, if you cant monitor your enemies, keep your friends close and your enemies even closer, says the famous quote. good riddance indeed. maybe Sarah Pallin will do a better job at ICANN, she already guards Alaska from her window.

  3. Lara says

    May 21, 2015 at 12:28 pm

    It is a bit too earlier to announce such a move 10 months in advance, don’t you find?

    There is something else out there left unpublished we may never discover, or guess???

  4. Dave says

    May 21, 2015 at 2:50 pm

    Give him the boot today, we do not need one more year of damage.

    This guy has made a mess of the domain name system, and knows it, and now is jumping ship.

  5. Michael Berkens says

    May 21, 2015 at 6:55 pm

    I would say he is giving them notice so they can start searching for a replacement especially since they want to escape US over-site by the end of the year

  6. Portly 1 says

    May 22, 2015 at 8:30 am

    This guy was a big supporter of the new gtlds. Now that the gtlds have all failed (duh!), seems like a good idea to find a new Captain who actually gets it.


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