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ICANN Updates gTLD Marketplace Health Index Draft

ICANN updated a draft version of its gTLD marketplace health index to include statistics from the first half of 2016. ICANN said it plans to release an update to the index biannually “to track progress against its goal of supporting…

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the evolution of the domain name marketplace to be robust, stable and trusted.” An advisory panel is refining the index's metrics before the rollout of a formal "version 1.0," the nonprofit said. Domain name registrars and others urged the organization in September to further revise its gTLD marketplace health metrics (see 1609120060). The index now measures marketplace health based on geographic diversity, overall changes in the number of registered gTLDs, changes in the number of registrars, accuracy of WHOIS records and dispute resolutions.