ICANN vows to work faster, improve transparency

At its annual conference in Bali, ICANN said it will speed up policy development and make the process more transparent. Chair Tripti Sinha flagged AI agents as a new challenge for DNS, while CEO Kurt Erik Lindqvist called for tighter links between strategy, priorities and budgets.

• ICANN opened its annual Bali conference a decade after the IANA handover
• Sinha: AI agents could reshape DNS traffic and boost malicious registrations
• Lindqvist urged linking strategy, prioritization, budgeting and implementation
• ICANN began a "review of reviews" of its own processes in 2025