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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=FR link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-21jun12-en.htm"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-21jun12-en.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div id=content><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid #4498FB 1.0pt;padding:9.0pt 31.0pt 9.0pt 15.0pt'><h1 style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;border:none;padding:0cm'><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'>Changes to New GTLD Program Management</span></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></h1></div><div style='margin-left:11.25pt;margin-right:11.25pt'><div style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;zoom: 1'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=date-display-single><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>21 June 2012</span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div style='margin-bottom:6.0pt;zoom: 1'><div><div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kurt Pritz has been appointed to take on direct oversight of the entire New Generic Top-level Domain Program in an interim capacity. He will assume the responsibilities of New gTLD Program Director Michael Salazar, who has resigned, in addition to his responsibilities as Senior Vice President for Stakeholder Relations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kurt will remain in this interim role, building on the significant work done to date, until a new Program Director is appointed. He is authorized to bring the full resources available to ICANN to bear on the application evaluation process to improve customer support, applicant communications, security and reporting.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In this new role, Kurt will report to Akram Atallah, in addition to his current responsibilities reporting to the CEO.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Several new tools soon will be provided to help applicants with any issues or questions about the evaluation process.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN is committed to the highest standards of professionalism, reliability and security in the New Generic Top-level Domain Program.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Glen de Saint Géry<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>GNSO Secretariat<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org"><span style='color:windowtext'>gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://gnso.icann.org"><span style='color:windowtext'>http://gnso.icann.org</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>