20 May 2025 is the deadline for an organization to submit its application during the RSP Program pre-evaluation application submission period.
Organizations that have not submitted their organization's application by 20 May 2025 will be deleted from the system as they are considered draft applications.
Organizations that did not submit an application during the pre-evaluation application submission period will have another opportunity to do so during the second RSP Program application submission period that runs concurrently with the gTLD application submission period. More information about the timeline of the periods of the next-round may be found here: https://newgtldprogram.icann.org/en/application-rounds/round2
Confirmed organizations, meaning that they have paid the RSP fee and passed background screening, can submit RSP applications for the types of RSPs (i.e., Main, DNSSEC, DNS and Proxy) until the end of the second RSP Program application submission period.
Confirmed organizations that have applied for Main RSP can submit RSP applications or change requests for IDN Services, IDN Tables, and additional Registry Services at any time during the round.
For the avoidance of doubt, if your organization submitted your organization's application before 20 May 2025, ICANN org will continue processing it.
Regarding the RSP fee and the two evaluation periods:
Per the RSP handbook:
The evaluation fee covers all required reviews, evaluations, and testing for all RSP applications and IDN service applications, and is a singular fee for all applicants That is, all applicants will pay only one fee even when applying for one or multiple types of RSPs, Registry Services, or IDN services. Note, that if a Registry Service application requires the evaluation by a third-party panel, an additional fee will be incurred for this specific review.
For avoidance of doubt, the RSP fee is paid once for the current round of the RSP program, and can be paid either during the pre-evaluation period or during the second evaluation period.