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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-15apr12-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-15apr12-en.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=date-display-single><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>15 April 2012</span></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Statement by Akram Atallah, COO<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As we reported yesterday, ICANN continues to study the technical issue that has prompted us to take the TLD application system offline.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Our goals remain to get a full understanding of this issue, fix the problem, notify those who have been affected, and reopen the application window as soon as possible. We are doing our best to mitigate the impact of this issue on the application process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As reported earlier, some applicants were able to see file names and user names that belonged to other applicants. An intensive review has produced no evidence that any data beyond the file names and user names could be accessed by other users. In addition, it does not appear that this issue caused any corruption or loss of data.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We are currently reviewing the data to confirm which applicants were affected. As soon as the data is confirmed, we will inform all applicants whether they were affected.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We are continuing to look at the technical issue and using outside experts to resolve any open issues before we reopen the application window. We are extensively testing the system to ensure that all aspects of the issue have been fully addressed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We will reopen the application system as soon as we have full confidence that the problem has been resolved. As noted in yesterday’s update, we will announce no later than 23:59 GMT/UTC on Monday, 16 April, whether we will reopen on Tuesday, 17 April.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>30 April remains our target date to publish the applied-for new domain names, but this is subject to change.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We apologize for any concern this issue is causing. In keeping with ICANN’s longstanding commitment to transparency and accountability, we will continue to provide regular updates at <</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/tas/interruption-updates"><span lang=EN-US>http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/tas/interruption-updates</span></a></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>> until the issue is resolved and the application window has reopened.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FR'>Glen de Saint Géry <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FR'>GNSO Secretariat <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FR'>gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FR'>http://gnso.icann.org<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>