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On April 14, 2012, ICANN issued another statement related to the TAS problem. The internet governing body identified that a report on March 19 was the only incident related to the technical glitch. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-14apr12-en.htm TAS Interruption - Update (14 April 2012 06:50 UTC)]</ref>
On April 14, 2012, ICANN issued another statement related to the TAS problem. The internet governing body identified that a report on March 19 was the only incident related to the technical glitch. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-14apr12-en.htm TAS Interruption - Update (14 April 2012 06:50 UTC)]</ref>
On April 23, ICANN announced that it was able to identify all applicants affected by the TAS failure and the testing to fix the system is running smoothly. In addition, it also announced the postponement of the scheduled publication of all the applied new gTLD strings on April 30. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-23apr12-en.htm TAS Interruption Update, April 23]</ref> Two days after, ICANN released an update informing applicants that the TAS will re-open on April 27. <ref>[TAS Interruption - Update (25 April 2012)]</ref>
On April 23, 2012, ICANN announced that it was able to identify all applicants affected by the TAS failure and the testing to fix the system is running smoothly. In addition, it also announced the postponement of the scheduled publication of all the applied new gTLD strings on April 30. <ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-2-23apr12-en.htm TAS Interruption Update, April 23]</ref> Two days after, ICANN released an update informing applicants that the TAS will re-open on April 27. <ref>[TAS Interruption - Update (25 April 2012)]</ref> ICANN continuously provides update to the internet community regarding the progress of the testing to resolve the system. On April 27, the internet governing body reported that based on its analysis there are still limited number of affected applicants and tests to improve the system is being conducted continuously. ICANN promised to continue to provide updates. <ref>[http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-27apr12-en TAS Interruption - Update (27 April 2012)]</ref>
On May 2, 2012, ICANN reported that there were 1268 registered users and around 95,000 file attachments were available when the system went offline. It estimated 455 incidents wherein a file name and user name was possibly seen by another applicant. It also identified that most probably the file names and user names of 105 applicants were viewed by another applicant and 50 applicants possibly viewed the file names and user names of one or more applicants. ICANN assured the internet community that it is continuously working on improving the system to fix the technical problem. <ref>
[http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-02may12-en TAS Interruption - Update (2 May 2012)]</ref> On May 4, ICANN informed that it received approximately $350 million dollars application fees and the payments from 214 potential applicants that were registered before the March 29 cut off were not yet received. In addition, the internet governing body also reported that notifications were being sent to applicant informing them if they were affected by the software. The notification process is expected to be completed by May 8 and the schedule to re-open the TAS will be announced. <ref>[http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/announcements-and-media/announcement-04may12-en TAS Interruption - Update (4 May 2012)]</ref>
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