Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
    - Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19

Results of the member nominations:

Africa

Asia/Australia/Pacific

(Due to a late burst of new member activations, Kuo-Wei Wu missed getting a nomination by just 3 endorsements.)

Europe

Latin America/Caribbean

North America

     


ICANNnot.org
·Andy Bloch's personal website covering the ICANN at-large elections.

ICANN At-large election news:

The final voting period has begun! Vote by 8:00 pm EST, October 10 (midnight GMT).

Important: Voting is final! Unlike the endorsements, votes can not be changed. Think carefully and be sure to rank all the candidates, to give your vote its maximum weight. Also, ICANN says that interim voting numbers will not be released.

Important security warning: If someone else has access to your computer, your ICANN Member Number, Password, and PIN may get exposed to another user of your computer. This will happen if you use the "Auto-Complete" feature for forms in IE, or if you fail to exit your browser after logging in to the voting system.

ICANN has posted web pages for all nominees.

ICANN has implemented an official Q&A forum.

Final endorsement statistics available here.

Historical endorsement data and graphs showing endorsement trends may be available by request.

Why this website?

  • Because the 750 words or less that ICANN has graciously allotted each candidate isn't enough.
  • Because I thought it would be more fun to express my views on a website in parody of ICANN itself.
  • Because I want to be able to share my views on the election as it unfolds.
  • So I can make useful election tools, such as the nominations status page, available to people like you!


The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) claims to be merely "a technical coordination body for the Internet." ICANN was created in 1998 to transfer control over certain central Internet administrative functions from the United States government to a "private-sector" non-governmental organization.

ICANN has assumed responsibility for coordinating the assignment of Internet domain names, IP address numbers, protocol parameters, and protocol port numbers, and the operation of the Internet's root server system.

ICANN is ostensibly a non-profit corporation organized under California law. However, ICANN has attempted to escape from many of the provisions of California law protecting members right, through an apparent loophole in California law. Furthermore, although ICANN itself is non-profit, ICANN policy making has promoted for-profit interests over the interests of the majority of internet users.