| Open: |
8 August
08 |
| Closed: |
7 September
08 |
|
Explanation: During
the ICANN meeting in Paris, France, ICANN staff
made a commitment to release a paper describing
the economic case for auctions as a tiebreaking
mechanism for resolving contention among identical
or confusingly similar applications for new
gTLDs. The paper [PDF, 52K] was prepared by
ICANN’s auction design consultant PowerAuctions
LLC with support from ICANN staff. The paper
notes that auctions as a tiebreaking mechanism
accomplish a goal of allocative efficiency
through a transparent, objective and scalable
process for the resolution of gTLD applications. |