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<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-06may09-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-06may09-en.htm</a></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Public Comment: Single, Two and Select Three Character
Names in .PRO</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">6 May 2009</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">ICANN is today opening a public comment forum on a
proposed amendment from RegistryPro to Appendix C and K of the .PRO Registry
Agreement.</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">On 8 April 2009, ICANN posted for public information a
request submitted by RegistryPro through the Registry Services Evaluation
Process (RSEP). The request calls for a phased allocation process for single,
two and select three character names in .PRO.</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The RegistryPro proposal is available at <a href="http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/registry-pro-08apr09-en.pdf">http://www.icann.org/registries/rsep/registry-pro-08apr09-en.pdf</a>
[PDF, 132K].</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">As provided for by existing consensus policy (<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/rsep.html">http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/rsep.html</a>),
ICANN performed a preliminary review to determine whether the proposal might
raise significant security, stability, or competition issues. ICANN's
determination is that the proposal does not raise such issues.</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">[Note that, from 13 June to 13 July 2008, ICANN conducted
a public comment forum on a proposed single-character second-level domain names
allocation framework (<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/proposed-scsld-allocation-framework-13jun08.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/proposed-scsld-allocation-framework-13jun08.htm</a>),
which supported the allocation single-character second-level domain names in
existing registries and reviewed various allocation methods.]</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The proposal requires an amendment the .PRO Schedule of
Reserved Names (Appendix K) and a description of the phased allocation program
is proposed to be inserted in Section 12 of Appendix C. A copy of the proposed
contract amendment is available here [PDF, 100K]. Comments on the proposed
amendment may be submitted to pro-alloc-amendment at <a href="http://icann.org">icann.org</a> through 5 June
2009 23:59 UTC. Comments may be viewed at <a href="http://forum.icann.org/lists/pro-alloc-amendment/">http://forum.icann.org/lists/pro-alloc-amendment/</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> </p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">All documentation related to the RegistryPro proposal is
available at <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2009002">http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/#2009002</a>.</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Glen de Saint Géry</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">GNSO Secretariat</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="mailto:gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org">gnso.secretariat@gnso.icann.org</a></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://gnso.icann.org/">http://gnso.icann.org</a></p>