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Assigned Names and Numbers</span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="float:right">Week
ending 26 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>
<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-2-26mar10-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Public Comment: Report of Possible
Process Options for Further Consideration of the ICM Application for the .XXX
sTLD</span></strong></a><br>
On 19 February 2010, the Independent Review Panel issued its Declaration in the
Independent Review filed by ICM Registry challenging ICANN's denial of ICM's
application for the .XXX sTLD.<br>
26 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-26mar10-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Nairobi Fellowship Program Reaches
Successful Conclusion</span></strong></a><br>
Twenty-one fellows participated in the 37th ICANN International Public Meeting
held March 7-12 in Nairobi, Kenya.<br>
26 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-25mar10-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">ICANN Formalizes Relationship with
ccTLD Manager for Georgia (.GE)</span></strong></a><br>
ICANN has announced today that it has signed an exchange of letters with the
country code top level domain (ccTLD) manager for .GE, Caucasus Online LLC., on
22 March 2010.<br>
25 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-8-23mar10-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">IDN ccTLD Requests Completes Fast
Track String Evaluation</span></strong></a><br>
ICANN is pleased to announce the successful completion of String Evaluation on
proposed IDN ccTLDs.<br>
23 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-22mar10-en.htm"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Proposed Implementation Plan for
Synchronized IDN ccTLDs</span></strong></a><br>
ICANN is pleased to announce the public comment period for the proposed
Implementation Plan for Synchronized IDN ccTLDs.<br>
22 March 2010</span></p>
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<h4><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Upcoming
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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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