ICANN President Twomey Announces Departure at end of year

Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers President and CEO Paul Twomey will not seek renewal of his contract and will move on from ICANN at the end of 2009. Twomey was named CEO and President in 2003, after serving, for 4 years, as the Chairman of ICANN's Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC). He oversaw the growth of an organization that has become the primary coordinator of the Internet's global address system.