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A listing of all versions of the Sponsored TLD Registry Agreement for .XXX that were considered, including the executed version, is available athttp://www.icann.org/en/tlds/agreements/xxx/icm-xxx-application-related-documents-en.htm.

On 28 November 2005 ICANN posted the sTLD Evaluation Report and supportingdocumentation that were generated as a result of the sTLD applicationprocess. The applicants were afforded the opportunity to redact confidentialmaterials from these documents.

Status Report on the sTLD ApplicationProcess (Updated 03 December 2005) [PDF, 108K]

• Archived Status Report (28 Novenber 2005) [PDF, 97K]

Appendix A - sTLD Selection Criteria (RFP) [PDF, 26K]

Appendix B - Evaluators' Questions for Applicants [PDF, 78K]

Appendix C - Applicants' Responses to Questions [PDF, 5,700K]

Appendix D - Evaluation Reports [PDF, 389K]

Appendix E - Supplemental/Follow-up Materials(Updated 30 November 2005) [PDF, 17,000K]

• Archived Version of Appendix E (28 November 2005) [PDF, 17,000K]

To post general comments, send an email tostld-rfp-general@icann.org.The archive of general comments is available athttp://forum.icann.org/lists/stld-rfp-general/.

Comments on specific proposals are now closed. Archives of commentsare available as indicated in the table below.

For background information on the sTLD-RFP process, see theApplicationExplanatory Notes. See also theoriginalannouncement of the RFP, thepublic comments leading to the RFP and thecriteria for Independent Evaluators.

In addition to the documentation and coments described above, over90000 email messages concerning the .xxx proposal were received. Becauseof practical difficulties in providing a web archive with over 90000 entries,a sample of these are archivedhere.

Spam and off-topic postings sent to the above addresses are archivedathttp://forum.icann.org/lists/stld-rfp-spam/ andhttp://forum.icann.org/lists/stld-rfp-offtopic/,respectively.