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1. Analysis Group Economic Studies 
   1. Analysis Group, Phase I Assessment of the Competitive Effects Associated with the New gTLD Program (September 2015), https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2015-09-28-en
   2. Analysis Group, Phase II Assessment of the Competitive Effects Associated with the New gTLD Program (October 2016), https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-10-11-en
      
      
2. Nielsen Consumer Surveys
   1. Nielsen, ICANN Global Consumer Research (April 2015), https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-05-29-en
   2. Nielsen, ICANN Global Consumer Research Wave 2 (June 2016), https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2016-06-23-en
      
      
3. Nielsen Registrant Surveys 
   1. Nielsen, ICANN Global Registrant Survey (September 2015), https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-09-25-en
   2. Nielsen, ICANN Global Registrant Survey Wave 2 (August 2016), https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2-2016-09-15-en
      1. Nielsen responses to questions from CCTRT on Registrant Survey Wave 2 (September 2016) 
         
         
4. Nielsen, ICANN Application Process Survey (December 2016), https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/56135378/2016%20ICANN%20Application%20Process%20Report.pdf?version=1&modificationDate=1482246915000&api=v2
   1. Application Process Data Tables
      
      
5. AM Global Consulting, New gTLDs and the Global South: Understanding Limited Global South Demand in the Most Recent New gTLD Round and Options Going Forward (October 2016), https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/56135378/New%20gTLDs%20and%20the%20Global%20South%20--%20Understanding%20Limited%20Demand%20and%20Options%20Going%20Forward%2010-31-16.docx?version=1&modificationDate=1478055284445&api=v2
   
   
6. ICANN Operations and Policy Research, New gTLD Program Safeguards Against DNS Abuse: Revised Report (July 2016), https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-07-18-en
   
   
7. ICANN, Rights Protection Mechanisms Review: Revised Report (September 2015), http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/reviews/rpm/rpm-review-11sep15-en.pdf
   
   
8. CCT Metrics Page (regularly updated metrics recommended by Implementation Advisory Group (IAG) on CCT metrics and adopted by Board)
   1. 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)
   2. IAG-CCT Final Report (26 September 2014) and revised Combined Advice from GNSO and ALAC on metrics (10 September 2014)
   3. Interim Recommendations from the IAG-CCT (4 March 2014)
   4. Implementation Advisory Group for Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (IAG-CCT) Wiki (2013-2014)
   5. 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)
   6. Board resolution evaluating suggested GNSO and ALAC metrics for CCT review (18 July 2013)
   7. CCT Metrics collection memo
   8. Remaining metrics for discussion
      
      
9. Consumer Awareness of New gTLDs: Highlights and Links (review of existing research) 
   
   
10. GAC Top 30 Category 1 Strings with Public Interest Commitments (PICs) 
    
    
11. Zooknic ccTLD data
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Background Materials 

Future Rounds

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1. Application window opens (Announcement, 11 January 2012)
2. Priority draw (Announcement, Draw held 17 December 2012)
3. About Internationalized Domain Names (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)FAQ about Spec 11 (PICs) (4 March 2013)
6. About Spec 13 (.BRANDS) (Contracting & the Registry Agreement, ICANN.org)
7. 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)Pre-Delegation Testing (PDT) Overview 
2. TLD Startup Information , (including sunriseSunrise, trademark claims and other periods (newgtlds.icann.orgTrademark Claims and Qualified Launch Periods) 
3. Trademark Clearinghouse (newgtlds.icann.orgTMCH) Overview
4. Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution (UDRP) Policy
5. Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) Overview
6. ICANN Contractual Compliance   

Foundational documents

1. Page
2. 2009 Trademark Protection IRT report

Name collisions

1. SSAC Advisory on Name Collisions
2. DNS Namespace Collisions Final Report
3. List of singular/plural strings
4. String Confusion Panelists

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

   1. Summary of public comments on RPM Report

SafeguardsSafeguards and Public Interest Commitments (PICs)

1. GAC Advice /Safeguards
2. List of safeguards

Voluntary PICs

1. Overview
2. Top 30_GAC Category 1 String_PICs.xlsxPICs from the GAC’s Strings (“highly regulated sectors” category) with PICs
3. List of rights protection, technical, and Spec 11 safeguardsAdvice requested by the ICANN Board regarding definitions, measures, and targets for competition, consumer trust and consumer choice 
4. PICs FAQs

ccTLD

1. Zooknic ccTLD data
2. Registrations in open ccTLDs

Trademarks

1. Best Global Brands 2015 Report
   
2. Frameworks analysis
3. List of Brand TLDs

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1. Other historical documents
2. New gTLD application status
3. WHOIS Primer 
4. WHOIS Policy Review Team report 
5. SSR Review Team report 
6. RSPs by gTLD registrations
7. Analys Group Responses and support document from questions on their Phase 2 economic Study
8. List of Registry Agreement assignments
9. Nielsen Applicant Survey Findings
10. New gTLDs and the Global South - Understanding Limited Demand and Options Going Forward
11. An Economic Framework for the Analysis of the Expansion of Generic Top-Level Domain Names
12. Registry Operator Code of Conduct Exemption Request
13. Ben Edelman, “Registrations in Open ccTLDs,” last modified 22 July 2002, https://cyber.harvard.edu/archived_content/people/edelman/open-cctlds/
14. M.L. Katz and C. Shapiro, “Systems Competition and Network Effects,” 8 Journal of Economic Perspectives 93 (1994)
15. H. Leibenstein, “Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of Consumers’ Demand,” 64 Quarterly Journal of Economics 183 (1950)
16. Phase 1 Assessment of the Competitive Effects associated with the new gTLD program
17. T. Halvorson, M.F. Der, I. Foster, S. Savage, L.K. Saul, and G.M. Voelker, “From .academy to .zone: An Analysis of the New TLD Land Rush"
18. R.D. Willig, “Merger Analysis, Industrial Organization Theory, and Merger Analysis, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Microeconomics), M.N. Bailey and C. Winston, eds., 1991, p. 310.
19. LAC DNS Marketplace Study
20. ICANN, Registry Transition Processes 
21. P.A. Pautler, “Evidence on Mergers and Acquisitions,” The Antitrust Bulletin, 2003
22. Market Structure: Theory and Evidence,” in Handbook of Industrial Organization, Vol. III, M. Armstrong and R.H. Porter (Editors), North-Holland, 2007
23. T.F. Bresnahan, “Empirical Studies of Industries with Market Power,” Handbook of Industrial Organization, Vol. II, R. Schmalensee and R.D. Willig (Editors), North-Holland, 1989
24. Coates, IV, John C. and Hubbard, R. Glenn, Competition in the Mutual Fund Industry: Evidence and Implications for Policy (August 2007). Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 592
25. P.M Parker and L.-H. Roller, “Collusive Conduct in Duopolies: Multimarket Contact and Cross-ownership in the Mobile Telephone Industry,” RAND Journal of Economics, 1997
26. J. Hausman, “Mobile Telephone,” in M.E
27. Cave, S.K. Majumdar, and I. Vogelsang (editors), Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volume I, Elsevier, 2002
28. T. Penard, “Competition and Strategy on the Mobile Telephone Market: a Look at the GSM Business Model in France,” Communications and Strategies, 2002
29. Summit Strategies International, Evaluation of the New gTLDs: Policy and Legal Issues, July 10, 2004
30. Horizontal Merger Guidelines, Issued: August 19, 2010, pp. 18-19
31. Strategies International, Evaluation of the New gTLDs: Policy and Legal Issues, July 10, 2004 
32. M.L. Katz, G.L. Rosston, and T. Sullivan, “Economic Considerations in the Expansion of Generic Top-Level Domain Names, Phase II Report: Case Studies, December 2011
33. T. Halvorson, J. Szurdi, G. Maier, M. Felegyhazi, C. Kreibich, N. Weaver, K. Levchenko, and V. Paxon, “The BIZ Top-Level Domain: Ten Years Later,” in N. Taft and F. Ricciato (Eds.): PAM 2012, LNCS 7192, pp. 221-230, 2012, p. 228
34. J. Liu, G. Rafert, and K. Seim, Independent Review of Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) Services Draft Report