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This Week</span></h4>
<p style="margin-top:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-03mar10-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Draft Delegation Rate Scenarios for
New gTLDs</span></strong></a><br>
In February 2009, with Resolution 2009-02-03-04, the ICANN Board requested the
Root Server System Advisory Committee, the Security and Stability Advisory
Committee, and ICANN staff, including the IANA team, to study potential issues
regarding the addition of substantial numbers of new TLDs to the root zone.<br>
3 March 2010</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-02mar10-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Public Comments Requested on Chairs
Draft Interim Paper for Policy on Introduction of IDN ccTLDs</span></strong></a><br>
The Chair of the ccNSO's Internationalised Domain Name Country Code Policy
Development Process Working Group for the selection and delegation of IDN
ccTLDs is pleased to announce the publication of the Chairs draft Interim
Paper. The purpose of this paper is to report to the community on structure and
potential directions of the recommendations for the overall policy.<br>
2 March 2010</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-01mar10-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Survey of IPv6 Availability on
Commercial Firewalls</span></strong></a><br>
ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee is conducting a survey of the
commercial firewall market to obtain information relating to IPv6 security
service availability.<br>
1 March 2010</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-13nov09-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Reminder: Apply Now to Join the ICANN
Board, the Councils of GNSO and ccNSO, and the ALAC</span></strong></a><br>
Applications will be considered in confidence and should be received by 2 April
2010 for full consideration. Selections will be announced in early September
2010.<br>
1 March 2010</span></p>
<p style="margin-top:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-01mar10-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Bulk Transfer of DNGLOBE Domains to
Paknic</span></strong></a><br>
ICANN has authorized a bulk transfer of DNGLOBE LLC's gTLD domain names to
Paknic (Private) Limited, due to a compliance action taken by ICANN that
resulted in the de-accreditation of registrar DNGLOBE.<br>
1 March 2010</span></p><strong><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
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