Dr Ajay Data, First Indian to become a member of ccNSO

The ICANN 2018 Nominating Committee has announced the selection of leadership position for Country Code Supporting Organisation (ccNSO). Dr Ajay Data, Founder & CEO of Data XGen Plus and a global leader in email linguistic services has been appointed as new ccNSO council member. He has got a two-year term and will take up the position during ICANN 63 Meet in Spain in October 2018. The members of ccNSO, which is ICANN’s policy development body for ccTLD (country code top-level domains) issues, are all country code Top Level Domain operators from around the world.

The Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the policy-development body for global issues regarding country code top-level domains (ccTLD) within the ICANN structure. ICANN is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers. Through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet.