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CCT Review Team Background
- Board resolution evaluating suggested GNSO and ALAC metrics for CCT review (18 July 2013)
- Implementation Advisory Group for Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice (IAG-CCT) Wiki (2013-2014)
- Interim Recommendations from the IAG-CCT (4 March 2014)
- 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)
- IAG-CCT Final Report (26 September 2014) and revised Combined Advice from GNSO and ALAC on metrics (10 September 2014)
- 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)
- CCT Metrics (Regularly updated metrics recommended by IAG-CCT and adopted by Board, see #6)
- CCT Metrics collection memo.
Metrics_Collection_Memo.pdf - Metrics remaining for discussion
Remaining metrics for discussion.pdf
- CCT Metrics collection memo.
- 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.
- Analysis Group Phase 1 economic study (28 September 2015): Commissioned in response to IAG-CCT interim recommendations in response to subset of 3 metrics.
- Global Consumer Research Survey - Final Report (23 June 2016)
- Global Registrant Survey Final Phase (15 September 2016)
- Registrant Survey additional requests (20 September 2016)
- Analysis Group Phase 2 economic study (11 October 2016)
- New gTLDs and the Global South: Understanding Limited Global South Demand in the Most Recent New gTLD Round and Options Going Forward: report from Andrew Mack’s firm AMGlobal.
New gTLD Program History, Development and Implementation
- ICANN’s founding and New gTLD Program History
- Names Council approves new gTLDs launching proof of concept round (19 April 2000)
- Evaluation of the New gTLDs: Policy and Legal Issues (Summit Strategies, 10 July 2004)
- Sponsored Round applications and public comments, includes evaluation report of sponsored round (3 December 2005)
- GNSO policy recommendations for adding new gTLDs (8 August 2007)
- Board adopts GNSO’s 19 policy recommendations (26 June 2008)
- NTIA letter to ICANN on AGB and competition issues in New gTLD Program (18 December 2008)
- New gTLD Program and AGB approved (20 June 2011)
- Applicant Guidebook
- New gTLD Program: Benchmarking of Registry Operations
Application Processing and Contracting
- Application window opens (Announcement, 11 January 2012)
- Priority draw (Announcement, Draw held 17 December 2012)
- About 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)
- Consumer awareness summary
Post-Contracting, Registry Start-up and RPMs
- 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
Future Rounds
- GNSO Non-PDP Discussion Group, New gTLD Subsequent Procedures and preliminary report
- Program Implementation Reviews Report
- GAC Working Groups on the Protection of Geographic Names
- GAC Underserved Regions Working Group
- CCWG on Use of Country and Territory Names
Foundational documents
- Affirmation of Commitments
- 2007 GNSO Policy Recommendations
- Applicant Guidebook
- Base Registry Agreement
- 2011 Board approval of AGB
- 2011 Board resolution approving the New gTLD Program
Name collisions
- SSAC Advisory on Name Collisions
- DNS Namespace Collisions Final Report
- List of singular/plural strings
- String Confusion Panelists
Rights Protection Mechanisms
- 2009 Trademark Protection IRT report
- RPM Review Report
Summary of public comments on RPM Report
Safeguards
Voluntary PICs
- Top 30_GAC Category 1 String_PICs.xlsx
- Advice requested by the ICANN Board regarding definitions, measures, and targets for competition, consumer trust and consumer choice
- PICs FAQs
ccTLD
Trademarks
gTLD Registrations
- gTLD registrations
- New gTLD registrations available in COM
- New gTLD Registrations of Brand TLD TM Strings 10-18-16
- Basic Market Share Calculations (Project 1) - 8.25.2016
- Basic Registry Market Structure Calculations (Project 2) - 9.7.2016
- gTLD Registry Price Analysis (Project 3) - 8.25.2016
- Registrar Competition within Registries (Project 4) - 9.11.2016
- Registry Market Segmentation Analysis (Project5)_8.25.2016
- Registrar Count Analyses (Project 6) - 9.30.2016
Abuse
Application Withdrawals
Other
- Other historical documents
- New gTLD application status
- WHOIS Primer
- WHOIS Policy Review Team report
- SSR Review Team report
- RSPs by gTLD registrations
- Analys Group Responses and support document from questions on their Phase 2 economic Study
- List of Registry Agreement assignments
- Nielsen Applicant Survey Findings
- New gTLDs and the Global South - Understanding Limited Demand and Options Going Forward
- An Economic Framework for the Analysis of the Expansion of Generic Top-Level Domain Names
- Registry Operator Code of Conduct Exemption Request
- M.L. Katz and C. Shapiro, “Systems Competition and Network Effects,” 8 Journal of Economic Perspectives 93 (1994)
- H. Leibenstein, “Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of Consumers’ Demand,” 64 Quarterly Journal of Economics 183 (1950)
- Phase 1 Assessment of the Competitive Effects associated with the new gTLD program
- 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"
- 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.
- LAC DNS Marketplace Study
- ICANN, Registry Transition Processes
- P.A. Pautler, “Evidence on Mergers and Acquisitions,” The Antitrust Bulletin, 2003
- Market Structure: Theory and Evidence,” in Handbook of Industrial Organization, Vol. III, M. Armstrong and R.H. Porter (Editors), North-Holland, 2007
- 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
- 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
- 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
- J. Hausman, “Mobile Telephone,” in M.E
- Cave, S.K. Majumdar, and I. Vogelsang (editors), Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volume I, Elsevier, 2002
- T. Penard, “Competition and Strategy on the Mobile Telephone Market: a Look at the GSM Business Model in France,” Communications and Strategies, 2002
- Summit Strategies International, Evaluation of the New gTLDs: Policy and Legal Issues, July 10, 2004
- Horizontal Merger Guidelines, Issued: August 19, 2010, pp. 18-19
- Strategies International, Evaluation of the New gTLDs: Policy and Legal Issues, July 10, 2004
- 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
- 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
- J. Liu, G. Rafert, and K. Seim, Independent Review of Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) Services Draft Report