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ICANN Solicits Candidates to Develop Request for Proposals for New gTLDs

📅 September 6, 2007 -

ICANN is posting this statement of work as part of its anticipated programfor delegation of new generic top-level domains. ICANN is seeking to engagea provider to develop in detail important portions of the new gTLD evaluationprocess. That is, the selected provider will develop the new gTLD request forproposals (RFP) process and document. This will become the process that applicantsfor new gTLDs will follow and that will describe the evaluation process ofthose applications.

The statement of work may be viewed here.

Candidate providers are requested to:

submit a statement of interest by 21 September 2007,
submit a proposal no later than 8 October 2007 that is responsive to thestatement of work and includes proposed scope, schedule and pricing terms.

Statements of interest and proposals should be submitted via email to CraigSchwartz at rfpgtlds@icann.org. Statementsof interest and proposals will be acknowledged by return email.

ICANN will post answers to questions received regarding the statement of workthrough 28 September 2007, at https://www.icann.org/tlds/new-gtld-sow-questions-06sep07.htm.

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