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<div>Ed,</div>
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<div>ICANN put up a blog post about this earlier today at:</div>
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<div><a href="http://blog.icann.org/2013/10/dawn-of-a-new-internet-era/">http://blog.icann.org/2013/10/dawn-of-a-new-internet-era/</a></div>
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<div>after putting one up on Monday saying the delegation had been requested: </div>
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<div><a href="http://blog.icann.org/2013/10/first-new-gtlds-get-the-green-light-for-delegation/">http://blog.icann.org/2013/10/first-new-gtlds-get-the-green-light-for-delegation/</a></div>
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<div>ICANN also issued a news release (listing the four domains):</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-23oct13-en">http://www.icann.org/en/news/press/releases/release-23oct13-en</a></div>
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<div>So yes, it's begun.</div>
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<div>Dan</div>
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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif">Dan York</font></div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Edward Lewis <<a href="mailto:ed.lewis@neustar.biz">ed.lewis@neustar.biz</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:01:09 -0400<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>DNS Operations <<a href="mailto:dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net">dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Edward Lewis <<a href="mailto:ed.lewis@neustar.biz">ed.lewis@neustar.biz</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[dns-operations] It's begun...<br>
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My sensors show 4 new gTLDs in the last hour or so...IDN, non-ccTLD...added between 1800 and 1900 UTC.<br>
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Anyone else see this?<br>
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