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<h3 style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 10px;">ICANN Weekly Newsletter</h3>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;">News from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers</p>
<span style="float: left;"><strong><a href="http://www.icann.org/">http://www.icann.org/</a></strong></span><span style="float: right; font-size: small;"><strong>Week ending 25 July 2014</strong></span>
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<h4>Announcements This Week</h4>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px;"><strong><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-24-en">China’s 21Vianet Contributes to Stable and Resilient Internet with L-Root Instance | Introduction on Instance Helps Mitigate Network Outages, Delivers Improved
Internet Experience</a></strong><br>
A new instance of L-Root has been installed in China, increasing the Domain Name System's (DNS) overall fault tolerance and its resilience against certain types of cyber threats, such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.<br>
24 July 2014</p>
<p style="margin: 10px 0px 0px;"><strong><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2014-07-23-en">Introduction of Two-Character Domain Names for .LUXURY, .WANG, XN--3BST00M, XN--6QQ986B3XL, XN--CZRU2D, XN--45Q11C, .BUILD, .REN, .PIZZA, .RESTAURANT, .GIFTS,
.SARL, XN--55QX5D, XN--IO0A7I, and 20 TLDs associated with Top Level Domain Holdings Limited</a></strong><br>
Seven (7) Registry Services Evaluation Process (RSEP) requests were submitted by the registry operators to allow the introduction of two-character domain names for the below TLDs.<br>
23 July 2014</p>
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<h4>Upcoming Events</h4>
<p><strong><a href="http://la51.icann.org/en/">12-16 October 2014: 51st International Public ICANN Meeting – Los Angeles</a></strong></p>
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<h4>About ICANN</h4>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0px;"><strong><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/general/bylaws.htm">ICANN Bylaws</a></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px;">Our bylaws are very important to us. They capture our mission of security, stability and accessibility, and compel the organization to be open and transparent. Learn more at
<strong><a href="http://www.icann.org/">www.ICANN.org</a></strong>.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/planning/">Strategic Plan, 2012 - 2015</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/financials/budget-opplan.htm">Adopted FY14 Operating Plan and Budget</a></strong></p>
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