[council] FW: [Soac-infoalert] Tracking gTLD Marketplace Health - ICANN

["James M. Bladel" <jbladel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Council Colleagues, FYI.  Blog Post from Cyrus Namazi (GDD) on the beta  gTLD 
Marketplace Health Index.

Thanks-

J.


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Date: Wednesday, July 20, 2016 at 2:58
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Subject: [Soac-infoalert] Tracking gTLD Marketplace Health - ICANN

https://www.icann.org/news/blog/tracking-gtld-marketplace-health

ICANN Blog
Author: Cyrus Namazi

Tracking gTLD Marketplace Health

Today, ICANN published the gTLD Marketplace Health Index (Beta), which presents 
statistics and trends related to generic top-level domains (gTLDs). ICANN 
intends to publish these statistics biannually to track progress against its 
goal of supporting the evolution of the domain name marketplace.

The initial set of metrics was divided into three categories:

    Robust competition - geographic representation of gTLD registrars and gTLD 
registry operators, trends in competition among gTLD registrars and gTLD 
registry operators, expansion in second-level domains (legacy gTLDs, new gTLDs, 
internationalized gTLDs)
    Marketplace stability - accreditation and disaccreditation of gTLD 
registrars
    Trust - gTLD registrar terminations, WHOIS accuracy rates, and UDRP and URS 
complaints

View the Health Index [PDF, 2.37 MB].
Public Comment Period

The gTLD Marketplace Health Index (Beta) includes gTLD data collected by ICANN. 
There are many other potential sources of data to consider as ICANN and the 
community work together to develop additional metrics. To this end, we've 
opened a public comment period on the health index and a set of proposed 
discussion topics regarding additional metrics is included in the report. I 
hope that these materials will spark continued community collaboration on the 
initiative and shape abstract discussions into a more concrete, implementable 
set of concepts. The deadline for comment is 6 September 2016.

Comment Now.
Why Create a Marketplace Health Index?

ICANN's Strategic Plan, covering fiscal years 2016-2020, charges the Global 
Domains Division with supporting the evolution of the domain name marketplace 
to be robust, stable and trusted. We've been consulting with the community for 
about one year to determine how best to achieve this goal. These consultations 
led us to create an initial set of metrics for a domain name marketplace health 
index. ICANN then enlisted Hemant Bhargava, a professor at the University of 
California-Davis Graduate School of Management, to review the proposed metrics 
and overall approach from an academic perspective. Read Dr. Bhargava's report 
[PDF, 351 KB].
Get Involved!

We need your feedback! The index will be much more valuable if we build upon 
this beta version with a more comprehensive set of metrics for the gTLD 
Marketplace Health Index 1.0.

If you're interested in this topic, I encourage you to join the gTLD 
Marketplace Health Index Advisory Panel, a group of community volunteers 
convened earlier this year to collaborate with ICANN on the design of the 
health index. To join, visit 
https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/gtldmarketplace and subscribe to the 
Advisory Panel email list.

Following the close of the public comment period, ICANN will begin holding 
regular meetings with the gTLD Marketplace Health Index Advisory Panel. Our 
goal will be to finalize a list of additional, refined metrics during this 
calendar year so that the required data can be collected, analyzed and ready to 
publish in the gTLD Marketplace Health Index 1.0 in early 2017.