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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Dear GNSO Council, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Following our presentation of the IRTP PSR to the GNSO on 29 November, we were alerted to a labeling error in Sections 1.5 and 2 of the report posted on
14 November 2018. Aggregated transfer numbers in these sections were erroneously labeled as “yearly” rather than “monthly”. These labels have been corrected. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">An updated version of the report and associated slides are attached. The public comment page has also been updated with the corrected version of the report: </span><span style="color:#333333"><a href="https://www.icann.org/public-comments/irtp-status-2018-11-14-en"><span style="color:#954F72">https://www.icann.org/public-comments/irtp-status-2018-11-14-en</span></a> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">The corrections affected the following figures in Sections 1.5 and 2, copy-pasted and highlighted here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">On average, approximately <b>414,000 domain transfers occurred per month—<span style="background:yellow">or
4,968,000 per year</span>—</b>during<b> </b>the observation period (2009 – 2017)</span><a name="_Ref525197247"></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in"><span style="color:black">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black">Total domain registrations per year during the observation period ranged from
114,927,682 in October 2009 to 196,396,264 in April 2018, with an average of 156,766,483 yearly domain registrations. This means, on average, <b>total domain transfers represented about <span style="background:yellow">3%</span> of total domain registrations </b>per
year<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">We apologize for the error, and appreciate the Council’s and Community’s diligent reading of the report. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:black">Please let me know of any questions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span style="color:black">All best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:18.0pt"><span style="color:black">Brian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Brian Aitchison, PhD</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Lead Researcher</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Operations and Policy Research</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Los Angeles, CA</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">p. 424 353 9041</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">e. <a href="mailto:brian.aitchison@icann.org"><span style="color:#0563C1">brian.aitchison@icann.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Sk. brian.aitchison.icann</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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