The ICANN Board selected Dublin, Ireland as the location of the ICANN 2015 Public Meeting from 18-22 October 2015

This meeting with be ICANN 54.

There are plenty of companies in the domain space that have offices in Dublin which offers some big tax advantage over countries like the US including;

Afilias

Rightside Registry

Starting Dot

Minds & Machines

Dot Global

TLD Registry Ltd

IEDR, the company that runs Ireland’s ccTLD.

ICANN also passed a resolution which will raise the compensation to all voting and non-voting Directors of ICANN to $45,000.00 a year, effective 1 August 2014

No change be made to the Board Chair compensation which is $75,000