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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://www.vocus.com/images/pr/icannheader2_logo.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p><h1 align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Number of Registrants Reaches 100 in the New Generic Top-Level Domain Online Application System</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></h1><h2 align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Site to Provide Regular Updates to Applicant Registration Numbers</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p><em><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Marina del Rey, California… </span></b></em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>As of today (February 14), there are 100 successful registrants in the online new generic Top-Level Domain Application System. Each successful registrant can apply for up to 50 new generic Top-Level Domains.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The number of successful registrant to the new gTLD application system will be regularly updated at <a href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/statistics">http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/statistics</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The deadline to register in the TLD Application System is 29 March. If applicants are not registered in the system by that date, they will be unable to apply. Completed applications are due on 12 April.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In early May, ICANN will publish a list of the applications, including the applied-for TLD names and the names of the applicants. Until then, ICANN will not comment publicly about any specific application or who has submitted applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE NEW gTLD PROGRAM: </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Frequently Asked Questions: <a href="http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faqs/faqs-en">http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faqs/faqs-en</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><ul type=disc><li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Program overview: <a href="http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gtld-facts-31jul11-en.pdf">http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gtld-facts-31jul11-en.pdf</a> <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p style='margin-left:1.5in'><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>MEDIA CONTACTS: </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:1.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Brad White<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:1.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN Director of Global Media Affairs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:1.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Tel. (202) 570.7118<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:1.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:Brad.white@icann.org">Brad.white@icann.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:1.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Andrew Robertson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:1.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Edelman Public Relations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:1.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>London, U.K.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:1.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tel. + 44 (7811) 341 945<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-left:1.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:andrew.Robertson@edelman.com">andrew.Robertson@edelman.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About ICANN: </span></strong><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>ICANN’s mission is to ensure a stable, secure and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet you have to type an address into your computer - a name or a number. That address has to be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN coordinates these unique identifiers across the world. Without that coordination we wouldn't have one global Internet. ICANN was formed in 1998. It is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with participants from all over the world dedicated to keeping the Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It promotes competition and develops policy on the Internet’s unique identifiers. ICANN doesn’t control content on the Internet. It cannot stop spam and it doesn’t deal with access to the Internet. But through its coordination role of the Internet’s naming system, it does have an important impact on the expansion and evolution of the Internet.</span></em><strong><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> For more information please visit: </span></i></strong><em><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.icann.org/"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>www.icann.org</span></strong></a></span></em><strong><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>.</span></i></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>If you would rather not receive future communications from ICANN, let us know by clicking <a href="http://ICANN.pr-optout.com/OptOut.aspx?523509x19831x69490x1x3696907x24000x6&Email=anne-rachel.inne%40icann.org">here.</a><br>ICANN, 4676 Admiralty Way Suite 330, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 United States<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>