<h2 style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Cairo Selected
to Host 33rd International Public Meeting</span></h2>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">16
May 2008 </span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">MARINA DEL REY,
Calif.</span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">: Cairo,
Egypt will host the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers' 33rd
International Public Meeting from 2-7 November 2008. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">At its 28 April 2008 meeting,
the ICANN Board accepted the proposal to host the meeting put forward by
National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">"This is going to be an
exciting meeting for ICANN with it marking our 10th anniversary and it's
fitting that it is in Egypt," said Paul Levins, ICANN's Executive Officer
and Vice President - Corporate Affairs. "Egypt, with other nations and the
technical community, has played a key role in moving Internationalized Domain
Names forward." </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">The meeting venue will be the
Intercontinental – Cairo Citystars. The website with information on the ICANN
hotel room rate and booking instructions will be posted soon. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Each year ICANN holds three meetings
in different regions around the world. These meetings constitute an essential
part of ICANN's global consensus-building and outreach efforts. The ICANN
Meetings Committee sets the regions in which ICANN will hold its meetings.
Proposals are then solicited from organizations interested in hosting the ICANN
Meeting. </span></p>
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<p><strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">About ICANN: </span></strong><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">ICANN is responsible for the
global coordination of the Internet's system of unique identifiers like domain
names (like .org, .museum and country codes like .uk) and the addresses used in
a variety of Internet protocols that help computers reach each other over the
Internet. Careful management of these resources is vital to the Internet's
operation, so ICANN's global stakeholders meet regularly to develop policies
that ensure the Internet's ongoing security and stability. ICANN is an
internationally organized, public benefit non-profit company. For more
information please visit: <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=9826907&msgid=147330&act=VMK0&c=165637&admin=0&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.icann.org%2F">www.icann.org</a>.</span></p>