The fee is due upon receipt of the invoice, and complete payment must be received by ICANN no later than seven days after the close of the application submission period (see Applicant Guidebook section 3.3.1). If the applicant has not paid the gTLD evaluation fee by the end of this seven-day period, the application will generally not be processed any further and will be cancelled.
Payments to ICANN must be made via wire transfer, Automated Clearing House (ACH), International SWIFT payment, or other method approved by ICANN for this service. Checks, cash, and credit card payments are not accepted. All payments must be in US dollars and all wire and transaction fees must be paid by the applicant.
Note: Existing contracted parties cannot send payment to the existing ICANN account in their payment systems. Payment must be sent to ICANN's New gTLD account as included in the invoice.