Those opposed to the adoption of the recommendations in Topic 35 were opposed to the use of private auctions as a mechanism of resolving contention sets. They stated that ICANN should prohibit private auctions and that the protections proposed by the working group under Topic 35 were insufficient to prevent another round of "profiteering" off of failed applications for gTLD strings.<ref>[https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/155191129/AL-ALAC-ST-0121-01-00-EN.pdf ALAC Minority Statement, Final Report of the SUBPRO WG]</ref><ref>[https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/155191129/Minority%20Statement%20on%20Recommendation%2035.pdf Minority Statement of Alan Greenberg et al., Final Report of the SUBPRO WG]</ref> | Those opposed to the adoption of the recommendations in Topic 35 were opposed to the use of private auctions as a mechanism of resolving contention sets. They stated that ICANN should prohibit private auctions and that the protections proposed by the working group under Topic 35 were insufficient to prevent another round of "profiteering" off of failed applications for gTLD strings.<ref>[https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/155191129/AL-ALAC-ST-0121-01-00-EN.pdf ALAC Minority Statement, Final Report of the SUBPRO WG]</ref><ref>[https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/155191129/Minority%20Statement%20on%20Recommendation%2035.pdf Minority Statement of Alan Greenberg et al., Final Report of the SUBPRO WG]</ref> |