Page History
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- ICANN’s founding and New gTLD Program History
- Base Registry Agreement
- New gTLD Program: Benchmarking of Registry Operations (February 2010)
- Affirmation of Commitments (December 2009)
- Board adopts GNSO’s 19 policy recommendations (26 June 2008)
- Applicant Guidebook
- New gTLD Program and AGB approved (20 June 2011)
- NTIA letter to ICANN on AGB and competition issues in New gTLD Program (18 December 2008)
- GNSO policy recommendations for adding new gTLDs (8 August 2007)
- Sponsored Round applications and public comments, includes evaluation report of sponsored round (3 December 2005)
- Evaluation of the New gTLDs: Policy and Legal Issues (Summit Strategies, 10 July 2004)
- Names Council approves new gTLDs launching proof of concept round (19 April 2000)
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- Application window opens (Announcement, 11 January 2012)
- Priority draw (Announcement, Draw held 17 December 2012)
- About Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) (ICANN.org)
- About the New gTLD Program's objection process and contention resolution processes (ICANN.org)
- About new gTLD contracting (Base contract and other relevant documents, ICANN.org)
- FAQ about Spec 11 (PICs) (4 March 2013)
- About Spec 13 (.BRANDS) (Contracting & the Registry Agreement, ICANN.org)
- About Registry Operator Code of Conduct (Contracting & the Registry Agreement, ICANN.org)
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- About pre-delegation testing (newgtlds.icann.org)
- TLD Startup Information, including sunrise, trademark claims and other periods (newgtlds.icann.org)
- Trademark Clearinghouse (newgtlds.icann.org)
- UDRP
- URS
- Compliance
Foundational documents
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Name collisions
- SSAC Advisory on Name Collisions
- DNS Namespace Collisions Final Report
- List of singular/plural strings
- String Confusion Panelists
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