Rod Beckstrom will step down as head of ICANN next year after leading effort to expand number of Internet addresses. Beckstrom Rod Beckstrom, president and CEO of the $60 million-revenue Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, will leave the organization at the end of his current term on July 1, 2012. ICANN is the nonprofit organization responsible for assigning Internet domain names. Beckstrom has been CEO since 2009. He most recently coordinated ICANN’s effort to greatly expand the number of generic top-level domain names, or gTLDs, which are the suffixes to added to the end of a domain name, such as .com or .net. The new domain name system is… Read More