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<br><div style=""><div>On Sep 22, 2014, at 7:03 PM, Steve Chan <<a href="mailto:steve.chan@icann.org">steve.chan@icann.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Dear DG Members,</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" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">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; border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Ron Andruff <<a href="mailto:randruff@rnapartners.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">randruff@rnapartners.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Monday, September 22, 2014 at 2:34 PM<br><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>"<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></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"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><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></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><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></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">RA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ron Andruff<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">dotSport LLC<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.lifedotsport.com/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">www.lifedotsport.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></div></span>_______________________________________________<br>Gnso-newgtld-dg mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">Gnso-newgtld-dg@icann.org</a><br><a href="https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-newgtld-dg" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;">https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gnso-newgtld-dg</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>