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id: "icann-grant-program"
kind: "glossary-term"
title: "ICANN Grant Program"
language: "en"
category: "Governance and policy"
updated: "2026-10-04T14:01:23Z"
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# ICANN Grant Program

A program through which ICANN gives money to nonprofit projects that support its mission, such as work on internet security, standards and training. The money comes from the last-resort auctions of the 2012 new gTLD round and is kept apart from ICANN's normal budget.

## related terms

- [auction of last resort](https://tldlog.com/glossary/auction-of-last-resort/)
- [New gTLD Program](https://tldlog.com/glossary/new-gtld-program/)
- [ICANN](https://tldlog.com/glossary/icann/)
- [string contention](https://tldlog.com/glossary/string-contention/)