Just in case you missed:

  • The ICANN84 Governmental Advisory Committee Communiqué Now Available. 12 very exciting pages to read and even more exciting starting page 6 of the PDF (the rest is a transcript):
  • Applicant Support Program Implementation and New gTLD Next Round Outreach.
  • Additional Fee for Evaluation of Geographic Names During the Next Round of New gTLDs.
  • Latin Script Diacritics.
  • IGO Protections.
  • The ICANN Board just "adopted" the next round Applicant Guidebook (also called the "AGB"),
  • ICANN Request for Proposal: Evaluator Panels for String Similarity and Variant Strings for the new gTLD Program: 2026 Round,

There is a new "Quick links" pages on the ICANN website here.