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CCTRT-Commissioned Studies

  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. 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), Competition, Consumer Trust, and Consumer Choice Review (CCT-REVIEW)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research/data spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e7ubkhsST2nigbsLkbHD-6RLVI5hkM9iOA2o0788u08/edit#gid=1951443254

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. 
      Metrics_Collection_Memo.pdf
    2. Metrics remaining for discussion
      Remaining metrics for discussion.pdf
  8. New gTLDs and the Global South -- Understanding Limited Demand and Options Going Forward 10-31-16.docx: report from Andrew Mack’s firm AMGlobal.
  9. Application Process Survey (19 December 2016)
    1. "Application Process Survey" Report
    2. Application Process Data Tables
    3. Application Process Verbatim

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. Evaluation of the New gTLDs: Policy and Legal Issues (Summit Strategies, 10 July 2004)
  4. Sponsored Round applications and public comments, includes evaluation report of sponsored round (3 December 2005)
  5. GNSO policy recommendations for adding new gTLDs (8 August 2007)
  6. Board adopts GNSO’s 19 policy recommendations (26 June 2008)
  7. NTIA letter to ICANN on AGB and competition issues in New gTLD Program (18 December 2008)
  8. New gTLD Program and AGB approved (20 June 2011)
  9. Applicant Guidebook 
  10. New gTLD Program:  Benchmarking of Registry Operations  

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)
  9. Consumer awareness summary

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
    1. Report of public comments on the 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
  3. List of singular/plural strings
  4. String Confusion Panelists

Rights Protection Mechanisms

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

    1. Summary of public comments on RPM Report

Safeguards

  1. GAC Advice/Safeguards
  2. List of safeguards

Voluntary PICs

  1. Top 30_GAC Category 1 String_PICs.xlsx

  2. PICs from the GAC’s “highly regulated sectors” category

  3. Advice 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

gTLD Registrations

  1. gTLD registrations
  2. New gTLD registrations available in COM
  3. New gTLD Registrations of Brand TLD TM Strings 10-18-16
  4. Basic Market Share Calculations (Project 1) - 8.25.2016
  5. Basic Registry Market Structure Calculations (Project 2) - 9.7.2016
  6. gTLD Registry Price Analysis (Project 3) - 8.25.2016
  7. Registrar Competition within Registries (Project 4) - 9.11.2016
  8. Registry Market Segmentation Analysis (Project5)_8.25.2016
  9. Registrar Count Analyses (Project 6) - 9.30.2016

Abuse

  1. Key contract provisions re Abuse
  2. Report on DNS Abuse and New gTLD Program Safeguards

Application Withdrawals

  1. Summary of Application Withdrawals

.COM vs new gTLDs

  1. Existing registrations in COM against new gTLDs

Other

  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. M.L. Katz and C. Shapiro, “Systems Competition and Network Effects,” 8 Journal of Economic Perspectives 93 (1994)
  14. H. Leibenstein, “Bandwagon, Snob, and Veblen Effects in the Theory of Consumers’ Demand,” 64 Quarterly Journal of Economics 183 (1950)
  15. Phase 1 Assessment of the Competitive Effects associated with the new gTLD program
  16. 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"
  17. 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.
  18. LAC DNS Marketplace Study
  19. ICANN, Registry Transition Processes 
  20. P.A. Pautler, “Evidence on Mergers and Acquisitions,” The Antitrust Bulletin, 2003
  21. Market Structure: Theory and Evidence,” in Handbook of Industrial Organization, Vol. III, M. Armstrong and R.H. Porter (Editors), North-Holland, 2007
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. J. Hausman, “Mobile Telephone,” in M.E
  26. Cave, S.K. Majumdar, and I. Vogelsang (editors), Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Volume I, Elsevier, 2002
  27. T. Penard, “Competition and Strategy on the Mobile Telephone Market: a Look at the GSM Business Model in France,” Communications and Strategies, 2002
  28. Summit Strategies International, Evaluation of the New gTLDs: Policy and Legal Issues, July 10, 2004
  29. Horizontal Merger Guidelines, Issued: August 19, 2010, pp. 18-19
  30. Strategies International, Evaluation of the New gTLDs: Policy and Legal Issues, July 10, 2004 
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. J. Liu, G. Rafert, and K. Seim, Independent Review of Trademark Clearinghouse (TMCH) Services Draft Report

 

 

 

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