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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=hzgDYzqCBQsAdkFUquD73PCKfJ0iK6GMRrtWlFb6_i8&s=Keg5dtpuEx8-d8nD5UAFCCmA9melR3xnwOtnKn1yHtk&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-2D2016-2D12-2D22-2Den&d=DgMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=hzgDYzqCBQsAdkFUquD73PCKfJ0iK6GMRrtWlFb6_i8&s=8-BgJoO8x5E4gj1oEJtOwJpWHJ7xInxmFmbL-C8Ffpk&e=">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-12-22-en[icann.org]</a></p>
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<h2 style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px;">ICANN Publishes Updated Staff Report on Proposed Amendments to Base New gTLD Registry Agreement</h2>
<p>22 December 2016</p>
<p>LOS ANGELES – 22 December 2016 – ICANN today published a revised Staff Report of Public Comment Proceeding regarding Proposed Amendments to Base New gTLD Registry Agreement.</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_en_system_files_files_reissued-2Dreport-2Dcomments-2Dproposed-2Damend-2Dnew-2Dgtld-2Dagreement-2D22dec16-2Den.pdf&d=DgMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=hzgDYzqCBQsAdkFUquD73PCKfJ0iK6GMRrtWlFb6_i8&s=d6Xzag3GyiLYg-pfAKTec5Ut4ZuyORAYaZG_P5YSnCM&e=">Read
the Reissued Report[icann.org]</a> [PDF, 544 KB].</strong></p>
<p>The reissued report supplements the staff report published on 17 August 2016 and includes additional explanatory text in Section I and a revised Section IV to reflect an analysis of the public comments by ICANN and the Working Group.</p>
<h3>More Information</h3>
<p><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.icann.org_public-2Dcomments_proposed-2Damend-2Dnew-2Dgtld-2Dagreement-2D2016-2D05-2D31-2Den&d=DgMFaQ&c=FmY1u3PJp6wrcrwll3mSVzgfkbPSS6sJms7xcl4I5cM&r=mrDeztziKLa7gZqGADzxcnHA3QXmXYsnChWYBR4NElI&m=hzgDYzqCBQsAdkFUquD73PCKfJ0iK6GMRrtWlFb6_i8&s=mEfK0AKB7JHkHIhr_pAPbRFp__HPrlsnbUZNyOmW-2E&e=">Public
Comment: Proposed Amendments to Base New gTLD Registry Agreement[icann.org]</a></p>
<h3>About ICANN</h3>
<p>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=hzgDYzqCBQsAdkFUquD73PCKfJ0iK6GMRrtWlFb6_i8&s=Ja7kH39M7jPxdW76T_v19YC1-fqRNSFLs7XM0snk800&e=">
www.icann.org[icann.org]</a>.</p>
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