Costa Rica Servers Featured News: ICANN 43 UPDATE, Coming to Costa Rica in March!

Public Meeting 43 of ICANN (1)(Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is coming to Costa Rica. The worldwide organization that coordinates the Domain Name System and IP Addresses will hold this event from March 11-16, 2012 at the Ramada Plaza Herradura hotel near the Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO).

International experts from more than 100 countries will be in attendance to discuss issues concerning the security of the internet, as well as maintaining its interoperability and stability. More than 1000 participants are expected. A full week of meetings and workshops will address a multitude of subjects, including government control of the internet, new top level domains and Intellectual Property issues with domain names.

Costa Rica was chosen for its stability, both politcal and economical, as well as its excellent internet connectivity.

For more information, or to register:

https://www.nic.cr/niccr_publico/showMain.do

(1) The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) coordinates the Domain Name System (DNS), Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic (gTLD) and country code (ccTLD) Top-Level Domain name system management, and root server system management functions. These services were originally performed under U.S. Government contract by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) and other entities. ICANN now performs the IANA function.