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Dear Sir or Madam,

Important decisions on the core functions of the Internet could be taken in 
Germany in 2020: Along with the City of Hamburg, German ccTLD Manager
DENIC eG (.DE) and eco – Association of the Internet Industry will act as 
joint hosts of the 69th ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers) meeting from 17 to 22 October 2020. ICANN is a not-for-profit 
organization which is responsible for the global coordination of names and
parameters for the functioning and further development of the Internet. The 
decision in favour of Hamburg was taken on 24 June 2018 at the ICANN 62
Policy Forum in Panama.

“After Berlin in 1999, this is the first time in 20 years that we have 
brought an ICANN conference to Germany,” says Oliver Süme, Chair of the Board
of eco – Association of the Internet Industry. “With eco, DENIC, and the City 
of Hamburg, strong partners from industry and politics have joined to
achieve this goal.”

ICANN coordinates the management of address identifiers on the Internet
For the Internet to work, domain names and IP numbers world-wide need to be 
unique. The central task of ICANN, founded in 1998, is to ensure this in
collaboration with the global Internet community. As a result, Internet users 
anywhere in the world can, for example, type www.denic.de into their
browser and thus reliably reach the DENIC webpage.

“An open, free, and secure Internet is a strategic priority for DENIC. The 
commitment of the German Internet Community has been honored with the
decision to bring the ICANN meeting to Hamburg. This will offer a good 
opportunity to put the German and European perspectives to the table at an 
even
broader level,” says DENIC Board Member Dr. Jörg Schweiger. DENIC operates 
Germany‘s top-level domain .DE, which currently – with close to 16.3m
domains under management – is the second-largest country-targeted namespace 
on the Internet.

Alongside the country-targeted ones, there are also generic domain suffixes, 
including – on offer for several years now – ones with a clear regional
focus. The City of Hamburg actively supported the registration of the new 
top-level domain .hamburg, so that, for example, the Hamburg police website
can now be reached at www.polizei.hamburg.

City of Hamburg welcomes international Internet community
ICANN meetings are held three times a year, at varying locations around the 
world. The 2020 ICANN Annual General Meeting will run from 17 to 22
October in Hamburg. The organizers expect around 2,500 to 3,500 attendees to 
participate in this conference from academia, the tech community,
politics, industry, and civil society: “Hamburg is smart and innovative, and 
is therefore a suitable setting for such an important conference of the
international Internet community,” says Hamburg’s Senator of Economic 
Affairs, Frank Horch.

The hosting partners had submitted their application to ICANN in November 
2016, under the coordination of the Hamburg Convention Bureau.

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