Domain Names:
Management of Internet Names and Addresses

ICANN Contract Term Extended: NTIA exercised the option to extend the term of the IANA Functions contract with ICANN for Option Year One covering the 1-year period of October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008.
Posted 09-27-2007

ICANN Awarded Contract for Internet Domain Name Technical Functions: NTIA awarded a sole source contract to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to perform technical functions supporting the Internet Domain Name system.
ICANN Contract [ -- Acrobat PDF -- MS Word -- ]
ICANN proposal incorporated into contract [Acrobat PDF]
Updated 09-05-2006

IANA Functions Presolicitation Notice
A presolicitation notice announcing the Department's intent to award a sole-source, no-cost purchase order to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers for the performance of the IANA functions
• Presolicitation notice to award purchase order to ICANN (Acrobat PDF format)
• Modification of Presolicitation notice (Acrobat PDF format)
• IANA Functions Statement of Work (Acrobat PDF format)

IANA Functions Purchase Order

Modification 5 to the contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions. (in pdf format)
April 1, 2006

Modification 4: NTIA exercised the option to extend the term of the contract for Option Period Three (Item No. 0004) for the six month period of October 1, 2005 through March 31, 2006. The contract was also modified to include changes to the content of reporting deliverables and new metrics for performance. (in pdf format)

Modification 3 to the contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions. (in pdf format)
August 30, 2004

Modification 2 to the contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions.
September 16, 2003

Modification 1 to the contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions.
August 28, 2003

New contract with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) for Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) functions effective April 1st. Although ICANN has performed these functions on behalf of the Commerce Department since February 2000, the new Statement of Work reflects an evolution in performance of tasks such as coordination of the assignment of technical protocol parameters, administrative functions associated with root server management, and allocation of Internet numbering resources. Requirements mandating quarterly statistical and narrative information and the development of new processing metrics are included in the new contract.
March 13, 2003

NTIA exercised the option to extend the term of the contract with ICANN for IANA functions for Option Period Two (Item No. 0003) for the six-month period of 10/01/2002 through 03/31/2003.
October 1, 2002

Amendment 2 to the IANA Functions Purchase Order.
August 17, 2002

NTIA exercised the option to extend the term of the contract with ICANN for IANA functions for Option Period One (Item No. 0002) for the six-month period of 04/01/2002 through 09/30/2002.
April 1, 2002

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority Purchase Order #2 in Word or pdf format.
March 21, 2001

Internet Assigned Numbers Authority

• ICANN
• InterNIC
• IANA
• ICANN-accredited registrars (.com, .net, .org)
• Internic's Whois (.com, .net, .org)
• .US Registry
• Country-Code Domains
• .GOV Registry
• .EDU Registrar