The 2025 NomCom will fill ten (10) open leadership positions:
Three members of th ICANN Board of Directors
One member of the PTI Board of Directors
Three regional representatives to the At-Larg Advisory Committe (ALAC) – one each from the Africa region; the Asia, Australia and Pacific region, and the Latin America and Caribbean region
One member of the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council
Two members of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council
Leadership Positions Information and Job Descriptions
The following documents provide information (criteria and time commitment) about the ICANN Leadership Positions to be filled by the 2025 NomCom:
The Nominating Committee (NomCom) is an independent committee tasked with selecting key ICANN leadership positions, including some members of the ICANN Board of Directors and the Public Technical Identifiers (PTI) Board, as well as the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council, and the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council. The NomCom is designed to function independently from the Board, the Supporting Organizations, and Advisory Committees.
NomCom members act only on behalf of the interests of the global Internet community and within the scope of the ICANN mission and responsibilities assigned to it by the ICANN Bylaws.
Getting to Know the NomCom:
NomCom Delegates:
Nominating Committee Delegates Biographies – Click here
* This information will be updated at a later date, no later than 14 January 2025. The ICANN Board: Guidance from the ICANN Board to the Nominating Committee Regarding Important Skills for Board Members information for the 2024 Board is available here for reference only and should not be considered a final representation of the details to be provided for 2025.
Domain Name System
Internationalized Domain Name ,IDN,"IDNs are domain names that include characters used in the local representation of languages that are not written with the twenty-six letters of the basic Latin alphabet ""a-z"". An IDN can contain Latin letters with diacritical marks, as required by many European languages, or may consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese. Many languages also use other types of digits than the European ""0-9"". The basic Latin alphabet together with the European-Arabic digits are, for the purpose of domain names, termed ""ASCII characters"" (ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange). These are also included in the broader range of ""Unicode characters"" that provides the basis for IDNs. The ""hostname rule"" requires that all domain names of the type under consideration here are stored in the DNS using only the ASCII characters listed above, with the one further addition of the hyphen ""-"". The Unicode form of an IDN therefore requires special encoding before it is entered into the DNS. The following terminology is used when distinguishing between these forms: A domain name consists of a series of ""labels"" (separated by ""dots""). The ASCII form of an IDN label is termed an ""A-label"". All operations defined in the DNS protocol use A-labels exclusively. The Unicode form, which a user expects to be displayed, is termed a ""U-label"". The difference may be illustrated with the Hindi word for ""test"" — परीका — appearing here as a U-label would (in the Devanagari script). A special form of ""ASCII compatible encoding"" (abbreviated ACE) is applied to this to produce the corresponding A-label: xn--11b5bs1di. A domain name that only includes ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens is termed an ""LDH label"". Although the definitions of A-labels and LDH-labels overlap, a name consisting exclusively of LDH labels, such as""icann.org"" is not an IDN."