<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div>Dear DG Members,</div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Further to Ron’s email, staff also published a draft Work Plan "to describe the set of community reviews and activities underway and planned to support consideration of an additional application process for the next round of generic top-level domain (gTLD) names under the New gTLD Program.”</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-09-22-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-3-2014-09-22-en</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Steve </div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Ron Andruff <<a href="mailto:randruff@rnapartners.com">randruff@rnapartners.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Monday, September 22, 2014 at 2:34 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org">gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org">gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [Gnso-newgtld-dg] FW: Latest report on gTLDs from ICANN staff<br></div><div><br></div><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dear all, <o:p></o:p></span></p><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;">This report (attached) from staff will hopefully add some value to the reality of this DG’s timeline considerations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><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;">In short: “<i>As of this writing, 404 new gTLDs have been delegated. A total of 1,168 applicants have been invited to contracting. Of those applications in string contention sets, 49% remain
subject to contention resolution procedures, which are forecast to be completed by the third quarter of 2016. ICANN anticipates contracting to be completed by the end of 2016, and pre-delegation testing by early 2017, before completing all the new delegations
by mid-2017</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><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;">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><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;">RA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ron Andruff<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">dotSport LLC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lifedotsport.com">www.lifedotsport.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></span></body></html>