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<br class=""><div><div class="">On Apr 18, 2017, at 11:38 AM, Dev Anand Teelucksingh &lt;<a href="mailto:devtee@gmail.com" class="">devtee@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt;">Read the blog post here<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_news_blog_q-2Da-2Dwhat-2Dthe-2Dretirement-2Dof-2Dgoogle-2Dsite-2Dsearch-2Dmeans-2Dfor-2Dicann&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&amp;r=hHmfPMLlwHNE6puLmGyZyomr-YutPxH4yrHalOULfck&amp;m=QlufgTg70SwT8cyiILxMR3jaCkn6jpIfEeFGilSSpkk&amp;s=zsz0NUaucxoYiR5WEE-QS1WzHn56Ycs4KEQ34T_TENY&amp;e=" class="">https://www.icann.org/news/blog/q-a-what-the-retirement-of-google-site-search-means-for-icann[icann.org]</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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;" class=""><span class="s1" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 12pt;">Specifically mentions the<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__icann.org&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&amp;r=hHmfPMLlwHNE6puLmGyZyomr-YutPxH4yrHalOULfck&amp;m=QlufgTg70SwT8cyiILxMR3jaCkn6jpIfEeFGilSSpkk&amp;s=7oRoRUvDXfi8ce3WdeuL99Q5xKtetr9V1XhjHYgM168&amp;e=" class="">icann.org[icann.org]</a><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>and icann at large websites so I&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;wonder if this issue is the reason for the allocation in the proposed FY18 budget for the item "FY18<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://icann.org/Atlarge" class="">ICANN.org/Atlarge</a>enhancements "</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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;" class="">Dev&nbsp;</div><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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;" class=""><span style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">ttf mailing list</span><br style="font-family: ArialMT; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 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;" class=""><a href="mailto:ttf@atlarge-lis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