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<p class="title">New gTLD Global Events Start Soon</p>
<p class="date">12 June 2009</p>
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<p> Starting this month, ICANN will be hosting a series of global New
generic Top-Level Domain (gTLD) events in various locations around the
world. These events have been designed in a wide range of formats to
address different community needs for those that have an interest in
the Program and in the development of the Applicant Guidebook.</p>
<p>The live consultations will facilitate on-going discussions with the
Internet community regarding workable solutions to some of the
outstanding, overarching issues, particularly trademark protection and
malicious behavior. Starting with ICANN’s the Sydney Meeting, a session
dedicated to trademark issues will take place on Wednesday, 24 June .
Subsequent consultation sessions are scheduled to take place in New
York (13 July) and London (15 July); attendees will have the chance to
meet ICANN staff and hear from those who have contributed to the
ongoing process, including members of the Implementation Recommendation
Team (IRT) that submitted their report to the ICANN Board on measures
to protect intellectual property. </p>
<p> The proposed outreach events in Hong Kong (24 July) and Abu-Dhabi (<em>tbd</em>) will focus mainly on the New gTLDs and Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) program details. </p>
<p>Additional locations are under consideration as well as a series of topic-specific webinars. </p>
<p>All events are free of charge, and we are expecting a high demand
for places; therefore, on-line pre-registration is recommended and
allocation will be primarily first-come first-served, but with
preference being given to first-time attendees to any of the
consultation sessions. Remote participation will be available and
details will follow shortly. For any of these events, attendees will be
responsible for their own travel and visa arrangements, accommodation
and meals. </p>
<p>The cut-off date for New York and London pre-registrations is July 10, 2009. </p>
<p>For detailed information about these events go to <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/consultation-outreach-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/consultation-outreach-en.htm</a>. Pre-registrations can be done at <a href="http://www.registration123.com/ICANN/GTLD/">http://www.registration123.com/ICANN/GTLD/</a>. </p>
<p><strong>Related Resources: </strong></p>
<p> New gTLD Page: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-program.htm</a><strong></strong></p>
<p> WIKI for Overarching Issues discussions: <a href="https://st.icann.org/new-gtld-overarching-issues/index.cgi?new_gtld_overarching_issues">https://st.icann.org/new-gtld-overarching-issues/index.cgi?new_gtld_overarching_issues</a></p>
<p>IRT Final Report on Trademark Protection (pdf): <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/irt-final-report-trademark-protection-29may09-en.pdf">http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/irt-final-report-trademark-protection-29may09-en.pdf</a> [PDF, 300K] </p>
More Information on IRT: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-29may09-en.htm">http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-4-29may09-en.htm</a>