ICANN to Celebrate Three New Regional At-Large Organizations

March 29, 2007; 01:03 AM

ICANN and the Internet community will celebrate the creation of three Regional At-Large Organizations (RALOs) - Africa, Europe, and Asia-Australia-Pacific - at ICANN's 28th Public Meeting.

RALOs are regional groups that help individual Internet users be involved in ICANN.

The event will take place Thursday 29 March right after the ICANN Public Forum. The signing ceremony will begin at about 1 p.m. Lisbon time at the ICANN meeting in Lisbon, in the Floriana 1 & 2 rooms.

Journalists unable to attend can watch the ceremony on the ICANN meeting webcast, which can be found at:

• http://www.icann.org/meetings/lisbon/

About ICANN:

ICANN is an internationally organized, public benefit non-profit responsible for coordinating Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. For more information please visit: www.icann.org.

Media Contacts: Jason Keenan, Media Adviser, ICANN (USA), Ph: +1 310 818 9072, E: jason.keenan@icann.org International: Andrew Robertson, Edelman (London), Ph: +44 7921 588 770, E: andrew.robertson@edelman.com