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<div style="width: 738px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.icann.org_&d=DgMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=dpYjGAwDCjbC_sH_B42ItNrVPJADESvSAxYfZ9tDo0Y&s=hfM77zkQUIu_sf0wLRTp8PpDo2fqOB--YowCrzVRjZQ&e="><img alt="ICANN" src="https://www.icann.org/sites/default/files/assets/icann-primary-logo-94x94-en.png" style="border: 0px; width: 94px; height: 94px; float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px;">[icann.org]</a>
<h2>News Alert</h2>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_news_announcement-2D2016-2D12-2D21-2Den&d=DgMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=dpYjGAwDCjbC_sH_B42ItNrVPJADESvSAxYfZ9tDo0Y&s=Nq6z4u4bVxS7qI3gZwsjH2W_x140VsmixDNzHkbC0KM&e=">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-12-21-en[icann.org]</a></p>
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<h2 style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px;">ICANN Publishes Updated gTLD Marketplace Health Index</h2>
<p style="margin: 15px 0px 0px 0px;">21 December 2016</p>
<p>LOS ANGELES – 21 December 2016 – Today, ICANN published an update to the gTLD Marketplace Health Index (Beta), which presents statistics and trends related to generic top-level domains (gTLDs).</p>
<p><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_files_gtld-2Dmarketplace-2Dhealth-2Dindex-2Dbeta-2D21dec16-2Den.pdf&d=DgMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=dpYjGAwDCjbC_sH_B42ItNrVPJADESvSAxYfZ9tDo0Y&s=e0w22zhiFpHxHWPlI4ys7Vo5HekTAy9W7u9h3E_IjDc&e=">View
the Health Index[icann.org]</a> [PDF, 1.91 MB].</p>
<p>The gTLD Marketplace Health Index (Beta) was first published in July 2016. ICANN plans to publish these statistics twice a year to track progress against its goal of supporting the evolution of the domain name marketplace to be robust, stable and trusted.
A community <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__community.icann.org_display_projgtldmarkthealth_gTLD-2BMarketplace-2BHealth-2BIndex&d=DgMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=dpYjGAwDCjbC_sH_B42ItNrVPJADESvSAxYfZ9tDo0Y&s=yjpqE8UKjP_BhJ4h1EHW0jFJJsN-Fl3Vg-xDYBl0kyw&e=">
Advisory Panel[community.icann.org]</a> is working with ICANN to refine the Index in preparation for publishing version 1.0.</p>
<h3>About ICANN</h3>
<p><em>ICANN's mission is to help 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 helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation and a community with participants from all over the world. ICANN and its community help keep the
Internet secure, stable and interoperable. It also promotes competition and develops policy for the top-level of the Internet's naming system and facilitates the use of other unique Internet identifiers. For more information please visit:
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_&d=DgMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=dpYjGAwDCjbC_sH_B42ItNrVPJADESvSAxYfZ9tDo0Y&s=Mx7QinkXVdjQ0LsEJIL1cDJwjNRKWaQ71slcrQHGM-0&e=">
www.icann.org[icann.org]</a>.</em></p>
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