Lobby organisation
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
NGO or non-profit · Technology & digital · HQ: United States · Transparency Register entry
As of 7 November 2026, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers appears in 19 declared MEP meetings (6 different MEPs), most often with Renew Europe.
In their own words
“ICANN, a nonprofit public-benefit entity, created in 1998, is the organization coordinating domain names and numbers across the world, ensuring the stable and secure operation of the Internet's unique identifier systems and especially the Domain Name System (DNS); and playing an important role in maintaining the Internet’s stability and security.”
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“ICANN, through its multistakeholder governance model, brings together governments, non-commercial and commercial stakeholder groups, civil society, and individuals. Each group represents a different interest on the Internet. Collectively, they make up the ICANN community, which develops policies for the DNS through a consensus-driven bottom-up process.”
Stated goals from the organisation's own Transparency Register filing.
Who they meet, and when
Which groups they meet
Share of this organisation's 19 declared meetings, by the meeting MEP's political group.
Meetings by year
Declared meetings per calendar year, 2021–2026. Bar length is relative to its busiest year (6 in 2021). Hatched: 2026 is a part-year - the record runs to 6 Nov 2026.
Group is each MEP's current political group, not necessarily the one they sat with at the time. Shares are rounded to whole percent.
The MEPs they meet most
The 15 most recent declared meetings
| Date | MEP | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Jun 2026 | Bart Groothuis | CSA2 |
| 15 Apr 2026 | Bart Groothuis | CSA2 |
| 1 Mar 2026 | Matthias Ecke | Internet Governance |
| 15 Oct 2025 | Marina Kaljurand | Internet governance at the international level |
| 2 Dec 2024 | Tsvetelina Penkova | Internet Governance Forum |
| 12 Sep 2024 | Bart Groothuis | Internet governance |
| 24 Jul 2024 | Bart Groothuis | Internet governance |
| 25 May 2023 | Marina Kaljurand | Internet governance |
| 27 Feb 2023 | Brando Benifei | Discussion on the AI Act |
| 20 Jun 2022 | Bart Groothuis | NIS2 |
| 10 Jun 2022 | Bart Groothuis | NIS2 |
| 24 Mar 2022 | Bart Groothuis | APA meeting on NIS 2 |
| 25 Jan 2022 | Bart Groothuis | APA meeting on NIS report |
| 8 Dec 2021 | Bart Groothuis | Meeting on NIS report |
| 26 Aug 2021 | Bart Groothuis | APA Meeting on NIS report |
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