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The next few days are going to be crazy. The "Paris Internet Week" is starting. There's a Domainer event, ISOC France's annual domain name convention "EGENI" (on Friday June 20th) and then the main event: the Paris ICANN meeting from Sunday June 22nd to the following Thursday.

Hectic doesn't quite cover what this coming week is going to be like for us at INDOM. But this is the first time that ICANN has come to Paris for one of its 3-a-year international meetings and we're determined to make it an event to remember. In fact, everyone who's been involved in setting up and organizing this meeting (INDOM's on the board of local organizer AGIFEM) has worked tirelessly to make it a success.

The Internet is an extremely hot topic in France at the moment and I can almost guarantee that seasoned ICANN meeting participants will leave Paris in a week's time impressed. There's a lot going on, including a few new initiatives. One that we're particularly proud of is the "Official Shuttle Service" we've put together with ICANN for Paris. This is a first for an ICANN meeting: minibuses will be parked outside the hotel carrying INDOM and ICANN branding and ready to take meeting attendants to selected must-see places in Paris.

It's been an unbelievable amount of work to set this up and as a first attempt, there's bound to be a few kinks remaining to iron out. But if you're in Paris next week, go on and give it a try. Take an hour off work and let one of the shuttles whisk you away to Saint-Germain or Notre-Dame or a number of other places you've always wanted to visit.

Welcome to Paris.