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<h2 style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:
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Delegation Rate Scenarios for New gTLDs</span></h2>
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March 2010</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Root Zone Scaling - In
February 2009, with Resolution 2009-02-03-04, the ICANN Board requested the
Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC), the Security and Stability
Advisory Committee (SSAC), and ICANN staff, including the IANA team, to study
potential issues regarding the addition of substantial numbers of new TLDs to
the root zone. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">As part of this continuing
effort ICANN commissioned an internal study of different scenarios for
application volumes. Using the procedures in the Draft Applicant Guidebook as a
foundation, ICANN staff modeled a series of scenarios based on the number of
applications received in the first round of new gTLD applications. This <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/anticipated-delegation-rate-model-25feb10-en.pdf">draft
paper</a> [PDF, 264 KB] summarizes the results of the model and provides, as a
reference, the source for the parameters used to predict the rate of growth in
delegations to the root zone of the DNS. In particular, the model shows
that, even under a scenario where there are very many applications for new
gTLDs, the rate of growth of the root zone would remain linear. </span></p>
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