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10/20/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/20/2025 06:53

ICANN Seeks Input on Name Collision IPv6 Research Study

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is seeking input on a study conducted to identify one or more IPv6 candidate prefixes that may be suitable for use in an AAAA record during controlled interruption, which is a name collision mitigation strategy.

This study involved a review of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority registries for IPv6 to produce a list of candidate addresses, followed by technical tests of multiple applications on popular end-user operating systems, to determine whether or not Domain Name System lookups that produce responses containing these addresses result in external network traffic.

For more information and to participate in the proceeding, please visit the Public Comment webpage.

Submissions Opening Date: Monday, 20 October 2025
Submissions Closing Date: Monday, 22 December 2025

About ICANN

ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address - a name or a number - into your computer or other device. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a nonprofit public benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.

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