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Under the ICANN Bylaws, the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Team (CCRTRT) is responsible for evaluating 1) how the new gTLD Program has promoted competition, consumer trust and consumer choice; 2) the effectiveness of the application and evaluation processes; 3) the effectiveness of safeguards put in place to mitigate issues involved in the expansion of the domain name space. This review is one of the key inputs to the re-opening of applications for New gTLDs. 
The aim of this Engagement session is to provide an overview of the CCTRT findings and draft recommendations from its Draft Report, and provide a unique opportunity for community feedback, questions, and comments. Community participation is key to the success of a review, and your unique input perspective will help the CCTRT drive its final recommendations. 

 
Agenda

9:00 – 910:20 00 Summary of Draft Recommendations

910:20 00 – 10:30 Q&A 

Attendees (per AC room sign-in)

Aaron Pace, Alvaro, Brenda Brewer, Brian Scarpelli claudio Davi D'almada David Taylor, Denise Michel, Elaine Pruis - Donuts, Eleeza Agopian, Fiona Aw, Freida Tallon, Jaifa Mezher, Jim Prendergast, jing liu, Jo Lim, John McCormac, Justine Chew, Kathy Kleiman, Laena Rahim, Margie Milam, MErmert, Miriam Narendra, Nath Gangavarapu, Pamela Smith, Tim Smith, Vicky Sheckler

Recording

• Adobe Connect Replay

Chat transcript: EN

Questions received

Competition

• You mention that you're bemoaning the lack of data from the legacy gTLDs on pricing and you also mention that they're currently subject to price caps which may actually give them somewhat of an economic incentive to the used vs. new gTLDs. I'm wondering if there has been any consideration to a recommendation that the price caps be removed in exchange for a contractual provision that they also cooperate with economic studies?
• Can you please comment on recent articles regarding significant price increases in some new gtlds?

Consumer Trust

• On recommendation 13 (Study which new gTLDs most visited and why; and how user's behavior relates to trust?), I'm curious about the technicality of how you go about measuring that given that most people are primarily visiting some form of SLD within the gTLD and that once they cache the gTLD server information they may not come back to the root name servers to visit the gTLD again to go the next SLD within the same gTLD. We may not necessarily have a particularly accurate way of getting at how people are visiting gTLDs due to caching.
• You were speaking about trust in DNS name space altogether but I understand the studies were only related to gTLDs because it was the subject of your work. In future, do you plan to do it in a wider way, also to see about the trust in CCs and maybe to compare the level of consumer trust in old gTLDs, new ones and CCs.  I think that would give us a bit of a broader picture?
• When you talk about higher level of trust from gTLDs that require some screening for eligibility and you mention bank and pharmacy, were those specific examples that were used in the survey?

DNS Abuse

• Does DNS abuse definition also cover compromised websites (link injection seems to be the most widespread compromise at the moment)?

Safeguards 

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