ICANN 40: Board Sets New gTLDs Timeline; Approves .XXX Domain
Posted March 18th, 2011
The following is the outcome of ICANN 40, San Francisco according to ICANN.org:
• The Board intends to complete the process for final approval of the New gTLD implementation program at an extraordinary meeting of the ICANN Board to be held on Monday, 20 June 2011, at the ICANN public meeting in Singapore.
• The Board endorsed all 27 of the recommendations made by the Accountability and Transparency Review Team, and requested ICANN Staff to prepare implementation plans.
• The period for accepting public comments about the process for creating new GNSO constituencies was extended.
• The Board supported entering into a Registry Agreement with ICM, approving .XXX as a new top-level domain.
Tags: .xxx, ICANN 40, ICM Registry, new gTLDs
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