[ALAC-Announce] ICANN ANNOUNCEMENT: ICANN News Alert -- TAS Interruption - Update (4 May 2012)

[ICANN At-Large Staff]

Dear All,

Please find an ICANN Announcement regarding the TAS Interruption below.

Regards,

Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber, and Nathalie Peregrine
ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC
E-mail: staff at atlarge.icann.org<mailto:staff at atlarge.icann.org>

From: ICANN News Alert <communications at icann.org<mailto:communications at icann.org>>
To: Matt Ashtiani <matt.ashtiani at icann.org<mailto:matt.ashtiani at icann.org>>
Subject: ICANN News Alert -- TAS Interruption - Update (4 May 2012)

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News Alert

http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-04may12-en.htm

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TAS Interruption - Update (4 May 2012)

Statement by Akram Atallah, COO

4 May 2012

The TLD Application System, or TAS, held 2091 applications - either submitted or in progress - when it was taken offline on 12 April 2012.

In addition, there are 214 potential applications that were registered prior to the 29 March cut-off date, but whose payments have not yet been received or reconciled.

ICANN has received approximately USD $350 million in fees for applications for new gTLDs.

As we have reported, we are in the process of notifying applicants whether they were affected by the software glitch, and plan to complete this process on or before Tuesday, 8 May. Shortly after that process is complete, we will announce the schedule for reopening TAS and completing the application period. Once the system is reopened, we will keep it open for at least five business days.

We appreciate your understanding as we work to bring the TLD application system back online.



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