Hannah Fletcher and Daniel Hartley look back at the ICANN83 Policy Forum, held in Prague from 9 to 12 June 2025. ICANN reported more than 1,300 in-person attendees, and the agenda covered the next round of new gTLD applications, DNS abuse and the 20-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society.
The governments' advisory committee called for targeted, narrowly scoped policy work on DNS abuse with a focus on bulk registrations, and addressed the Applicant Support Program and the accuracy of registration data.
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