Page History

CCT Review Team Background

1. Board resolution evaluating suggested GNSO and ALAC metrics for CCT review (18 July 2013)
2. Implementation Advisory Group for Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (IAG-CCT) Wiki (2013-2014)
3. Interim Recommendations from the IAG-CCT (4 March 2014)
4. Board Resolution on the Collection of Benchmarking Metrics for the New gTLD Program to Support the future AoC Review on Competition, Consumer Trust and Choice (27 March 2014)
5. IAG-CCT Final Report (26 September 2014) and revised Combined Advice from GNSO and ALAC on metrics (10 September 2014)
6. Board resolution: Recommendations for the Collection of Metrics for the New gTLD Program to Support the future AoC Review on Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (12 February 2015)
7. CCT Metrics (Regularly updated metrics recommended by IAG-CCT and adopted by Board, see #6)
   1. CCT Metrics collection memo. 
      

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   2. Metrics remaining for discussion
      

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8. Nielsen consumer (29 May 2015) and registrant (25 September 2015) survey: Commissioned in response to IAG-CCT interim recommendations in response to subset of 11 metrics. 
9. Analysis Group Phase 1 economic study (28 September 2015): Commissioned in response to IAG-CCT interim recommendations in response to subset of 3 metrics. 

New gTLD Program History, Development and Implementation

1. ICANN’s founding and New gTLD Program  History
2. Names Council approves new gTLDs launching proof of concept round (19 April 2000)
3. Sponsored Round applications and public comments, includes evaluation report of sponsored round (3 December 2005)
4. GNSO policy recommendations for adding new gTLDs (8 August 2007)
5. Board adopts GNSO’s 19 policy recommendations (26 June 2008)
6. New gTLD Program and AGB approved (20 June 2011)
7. Applicant Guidebook 

Application Processing and Contracting

1. Application window opens (Announcement, 11 January 2012)
2. Priority draw (Announcement, Draw held 17 December 2012)
3. About IDNs (ICANN.org)
4. About the New gTLD Program's objection process and contention resolution processes (ICANN.org)
5. About new gTLD contracting (Base contract and other relevant documents, ICANN.org)
6. FAQ about Spec 11 (PICs) (4 March 2013)
7. About Spec 13 (.BRANDS) (Contracting & the Registry Agreement, ICANN.org)
8. About Registry Operator Code of Conduct (Contracting & the Registry Agreement, ICANN.org)

Post-Contracting, Registry Start-up and RPMs

1. About pre-delegation testing (newgtlds.icann.org) 
2. TLD Startup Information, including sunrise, trademark claims and other periods (newgtlds.icann.org) 
3. Trademark Clearinghouse (newgtlds.icann.org)
4. UDRP
5. URS
6. Compliance  

Future Rounds

1. GNSO Non-PDP Discussion Group, New gTLD Subsequent Procedures and preliminary report
2. Program Implementation Reviews Report
3. GAC Working Groups on the Protection of Geographic Names
4. GAC Underserved Regions Working Group
5. CCWG on Use of Country and Territory Names

Foundational documents

1. Affirmation of Commitments
2. 2007 GNSO Policy Recommendations
3. Applicant Guidebook 
4. Base Registry Agreement
5. 2011 Board approval of AGB 
6. 2011 Board resolution approving the New gTLD Program

Name collisions

1. SSAC Advisory on Name Collisions
2. DNS Namespace Collisions Final Report

Rights Protection Mechanisms

1. 2009 Trademark Protection IRT report
2. RPM Review Report

GAC safeguards

1. GAC Advice/Safeguards

Other

1. Other historical documents
2. New gTLD application status