The full process and resulting applicant guidebook has taken about five years to develop and includes various advisory committees to help represent third-party interests, such as the the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC), which advises ICANN on international and local laws.
Asked about the delay highlighted by the Ombudsman, he said "we have to balance the need for transparency with the need to consider the legitimate interests of the thirdparty".
Selling Worldwide could mean the BBC losing control of its prime assets - its brands and its programmes - to a thirdparty which would not be in the interests of licence payers.
According to a poll by Moscow-based Levada Center, nearly a third of Russian voters say that the United Russia party is most representative of their political interests.
Nina Olson, the national tax advocate, whose job at the IRS is to protect taxpayers' interests, has called for new laws that would require a third-party payroll service to post a bond for its clients that would cover any lost tax payments.