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The first New gTLD Program application round opened in January 2012 and resulted in over a thousand new gTLD delegations, including geographic, community, brand, and generic strings. After the close of the 2012 round, ICANN and the community launched a broad series of reviews and studies on topics such as rights protection mechanisms, DNS abuse, consumer trust, competition, and name collisions. | The first New gTLD Program application round opened in January 2012 and resulted in over a thousand new gTLD delegations, including geographic, community, brand, and generic strings. After the close of the 2012 round, ICANN and the community launched a broad series of reviews and studies on topics such as rights protection mechanisms, DNS abuse, consumer trust, competition, and name collisions. | ||
In December 2015, the GNSO Council initiated the Policy Development Process on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures (SubPro) to determine whether, and under what conditions, additional application rounds should proceed.<ref name="history-new-gtld">[https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/newgtlds-history-2023-04-05-en ICANN: History of the New gTLD Program]</ref> The GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures (SubPro) Working Group conducted several years of deliberations, including work tracks on overarching issues, application types, geographic names, and technical and operational criteria. Its "Final Report on the new gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process" was delivered in February 2021 and organized into a set of affirmations, recommendations, and implementation guidance across more than forty topics.<ref name="subpro-final">[https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/final-report-newgtld-subsequent-procedures-pdp-02feb21-en.pdf ICANN GNSO: Final Report on the new gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process] Retrieved December 1, 2025</ref> | In December 2015, the GNSO Council initiated the Policy Development Process on New gTLD Subsequent Procedures (SubPro) to determine whether, and under what conditions, additional application rounds should proceed.<ref name="history-new-gtld">[https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/newgtlds-history-2023-04-05-en ICANN: History of the New gTLD Program] Retrieved December 1, 2025</ref> The GNSO New gTLD Subsequent Procedures (SubPro) Working Group conducted several years of deliberations, including work tracks on overarching issues, application types, geographic names, and technical and operational criteria. Its "Final Report on the new gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process" was delivered in February 2021 and organized into a set of affirmations, recommendations, and implementation guidance across more than forty topics.<ref name="subpro-final">[https://gnso.icann.org/sites/default/files/file/field-file-attach/final-report-newgtld-subsequent-procedures-pdp-02feb21-en.pdf ICANN GNSO: Final Report on the new gTLD Subsequent Procedures Policy Development Process] Retrieved December 1, 2025</ref> | ||
On February 18, 2021, the GNSO Council approved all SubPro outputs that achieved "Full Consensus" or "Consensus" and transmitted them to the ICANN Board.<ref name="history-new-gtld" /> In 2023, the Board adopted ninety-eight of the recommendations and marked thirty-eight as pending while it consulted further with the GNSO and the GAC.<ref name="gac-next-round">[https://gac.icann.org/activity/new-gtld-program-next-round ICANN GAC: New gTLD Program Next Round] Retrieved December 1, 2025</ref> The Board also requested an implementation plan from ICANN org describing how a subsequent round could be operationalized.<ref name="impl-plan-2023">[https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/new-gtld-next-round-implementation-plan-31jul23-en.pdf ICANN: The New gTLD Program Next Round Implementation Plan] Retrieved December 1, 2025</ref> | On February 18, 2021, the GNSO Council approved all SubPro outputs that achieved "Full Consensus" or "Consensus" and transmitted them to the ICANN Board.<ref name="history-new-gtld" /> In 2023, the Board adopted ninety-eight of the recommendations and marked thirty-eight as pending while it consulted further with the GNSO and the GAC.<ref name="gac-next-round">[https://gac.icann.org/activity/new-gtld-program-next-round ICANN GAC: New gTLD Program Next Round] Retrieved December 1, 2025</ref> The Board also requested an implementation plan from ICANN org describing how a subsequent round could be operationalized.<ref name="impl-plan-2023">[https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/new-gtld-next-round-implementation-plan-31jul23-en.pdf ICANN: The New gTLD Program Next Round Implementation Plan] Retrieved December 1, 2025</ref> | ||