Prague to host ICANN Studienkreis annual conference

Company representatives, academics and Internet experts associated in ICANN Studienkreis will meet in Prague to discuss the Internet development strategy and the domain name market in the Czech Republic, new top-level domains, business opportunities offered by the development of the Internet, ENUM utilization and the future of Internet services.

CZ.NIC, the administrator of the national domain CZ, has became a partner and a cooperator of the ICANN Studienkreis annual conference. Held on 25 – 26 September 2006 in Hotel Ambassador in Prague, the 7th ICANN Studienkreis annual conference will be attended by people from organizations managing country code top level domains, academics, Internet research experts and representatives from leading companies doing their business on the Internet.

“It is a real honour for us to be able to participate in the organization of the prestigious ICANN Studienkreis conference in Prague, inviting leading experts on the Internet’s infrastructure and Internet services to the Czech Republic,” says Ondřej Filip, CZ.NIC director. “The discussed topics are fundamental for the future development of the Internet in the Czech Republic, in Europe and worldwide.”

The topics discussed at the ICANN Studienkreis conference will include the Internet development strategy and the domain name market in the Czech Republic, new top level domains (TLD), Internet development in Central and Eastern Europe, new services and business opportunities on the Internet, the utilization of the ENUM and RFID technologies, and much more. A detailed schedule of the event can be found in the document at: http://www.icann-studienkreis.net/prague2006_program.pdf.

About ICANN and ICANN Studienkreis
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a non-profit organization founded on 18 September 1998 with the main objective of managing and assigning domain names and IP addresses. ICANN is located in Marina del Rey, California; more information about the organization can be found at http://www.icann.org. ICANN Studienkreis is an association of experts on Internet infrastructure and services from the academia, corporate and private sector. The association was founded in 1999, the first ICANN Studienkreis conference was held in 2000 in Leipzig, Germany. More information is available at http://www.icann-studienkreis.net.