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--></style></head><body lang=en-JO link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Friends and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>A new paper entitled “<b>Study of the Prevalence of DNS Queries for CORP, HOME, and MAIL</b>” has been released by ICANN’s Office of the CTO (OCTO).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:justify'><i><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#0070C0'>This work studies the prevalence of Domain Name System (DNS) queries for domains ending in the top-level labels CORP, HOME, and MAIL in traffic to the root servers over an extended period of time. The frequency of queries and the number of unique source addresses are measured and compared to queries for other non-existent domains.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>You can access the paper here >> <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/octo-007-en.pdf">https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/octo-007-en.pdf</a> [PDF].<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Fahd Batayneh<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>ICANN<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>