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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="float:right">Week
ending 12 March 2010 </span></span></strong></span></p>
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<h4><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Announcements
This Week</span></h4>
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margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="style11"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12mar10-en.htm">ICANN
Formalizes Relationship with ccTLD Manager for Papua New Guinea (.PG)</a></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><br>
ICANN has announced that it has signed an exchange of letters with the country
code top level domain (ccTLD) manager for .PG, the Papua New Guinea University
of Technology, on 10 March 2010.<br>
12 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-09mar10-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Public Comment: Proposed .PRO Renewal
Registry Agreement</span></strong></a><br>
The proposed renewal of the .PRO registry agreement is posted for public
comment. The .PRO TLD was approved during the 2000 proof-of-concept round of
new gTLDs and its original agreement is due to expire on 27 May 2010. The
proposed .PRO renewal agreement is fundamentally the same as what was
negotiated and approved for .BIZ, also an unsponsored/restricted gTLD, in 2006.<br>
9 March 2010</span></p>
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Events</span></h4>
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<h4><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">About
ICANN</span></h4>
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