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Correspondence Affiliation Date Issue
Letter from Lisa M. Martens to John Jeffrey [PDF, 676 KB] Fish & Richardson P.C. 12 December 2005 Release of single-letter names
Letter from David Filo to ICANN [PDF, 58 KB] Yahoo.com 12 December 2005 Release of single-letter names
Message from John Jeffrey to Edward Hasbrouck ICANN 4 December 2005 .travel IRP Request
Letter from Paul Twomey to Jonas Bjelfvenstam [PDF, 75 KB] ICANN 23 November 2005 .XXX Application
Letter from Jonas Bjelfvenstam to Paul Twomey Swedish Government 23 November 2005 .XXX Application
Letter from Francis Gurry to Vint Cerf and Paul Twomey [PDF, 188 KB] WIPO 15 November 2005 WIPO-2 Recommendations
Letter from Patrick M. Byrne to Paul Twomey [PDF, 94 KB] Overstock.com 11 November 2005 Release of single-letter names
Letter from Vint Cerf to Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi [PDF, 16 KB] ICANN Board 8 November 2005 Plan meeting to improve joint ICANN-GAC cooperation
Letter from Peter Zangl to Vinton Cerf [PDF, 73 KB] European Commission 16 September 2005 Concerns about contract for approval of new top level domain
Letter from Marcelo de Carvalho Lopes to Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi [PDF, 32 KB] Governmental Advisory Committee 6 September 2005 Process of Introducing new TLD's
Letter from Michelle L. Freridge to Vinton Cerf Free Speech Coalition 30 August 2005 .XXX TLD application
Correspondence from Che-Hoo Cheng to Howard C. Dickson [PDF, 694 KB] DotASIA Organisation 18 August 2005 The .ASIA Initiative
Correspondence from Howard C. Dickson to Che-Hoo Cheng [PDF, 44 KB] Office of the Government Chief Information Officer, Hong Kong SAR 16 August 2005 The .ASIA Initiative
Letter from Stuart Lawley to Paul Twomey [PDF, 100 KB] ICM Registry 15 August 2005 ICM Registry sTLD Application
Letter from Michael D. Gallagher to Vinton Cerf [PDF, 121 KB] U.S. Department of Commerce 15 August 2005 ICM Registry sTLD Application
Correspondence from Mohd Sharil Tarmizi to ICANN Board of Directors GAC 12 August 2005 Concerns about contract for approval of new top level domain
Letter from Kevin Dankwardt to Kurt Pritz K Computing, Inc. 30 June 2005 Release of single-letter names
Letter from Michael D. Gallagher to Paul Twomey [PDF, 110 KB] U.S. Department of Commerce 29 June 2005 Approval of VeriSign as .NET Successor Registry
Letter from Jeffrey Johnson to Kurt Pritz [PDF, 22 KB] Iron Mountain Intellectual Property Management, Inc. 31 May 2005 Iron Mountain accreditation
Message from John Jeffrey to Edward Hasbrouck Individual 12 May 2005 Delegation of .TRAVEL
Letter from Paul Kane to Paul Verhoef [PDF, 53 KB] CENTR 29 April 2005 Response to CENTR statements in Mar del Plata
Letter from Tom Barrett to Tim Cole [PDF, 24 KB] EnCirca 20 April 2005 EnCirca's ProForwarding Service
Letter from Paul Verhoef to Paul Kane [PDF, 21 KB] ICANN 18 April 2005 Response to CENTR Statements in Mar del Plata
Letter from Michael DelCiello to Tina Dam [PDF, 22 KB] RegistryPro 18 April 2005 Encirca's ProForwarding Service
Letter from Sabine Dolderer to Paul Twomey [PDF, 102 KB] DENIC 14 April 2005 Denic Comments to Telcordia .NET Evaluation
Letter from M. Scott Hemphill to Paul Twomey [PDF, 1.16 MB] Afilias 12 April 2005 Afilias Comments to Telcordia .NET Evaluation
Email from Edward Hasbrouck to ICANN Individual 7 April 2005 Requests related to .travel
Letter from Mark McLaughlin to Paul Twomey [PDF, 61 KB] VeriSign 7 April 2005 VeriSign Comments to Telcordia .NET Evaluation
Letter from Elmar Knipp to Paul Twomey [PDF, 113 KB] CORE++ 6 April 2005 CORE++ Comments to Telcordia .NET Evaluation
Letter from Richard Tindal to Paul Twomey [PDF, 182 KB] Sentan Registry Services, Inc. 4 April 2005 Sentan Comments to Telcordia .NET Evaluation
Email from Giovanni Seppia to Paul Verhoef [PDF, 36 KB] CENTR 3 April 2005 CENTR inputs to the ccNSO process
Letter from Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi to Paul Twomey [PDF, 130 KB] GAC 3 April 2005 Strategic Plan
Correspondence from Mohamed Sharil Tarmizi to Paul Twomey GAC 3 April 2005 Response to the letter from the ICANN president and CEO to the GAC chair, 1 December 2004
Email from Sabine Dolderer to Kurt Pritz DENIC 28 March 2005 DENIC Comments to Telcordia .NET Evaluation
Letter from Tina Dam to Michael DelCiello [PDF, 99 KB] ICANN 24 March 2005 Encirca's ProForwarding Service
Letter from Nicolas Michel to Vinton Cerf, Paul Twomey [PDF, 378 KB] United Nations 23 March 2005 Unauthorized Registration of Internet Domain Names
Letter from Francis Gurry to Vint Cerf, Paul Twomey [PDF, 1.67 MB] WIPO 18 March 2005 New Generic Top-Level Domains
Letter from Tom Barrett to Tim Cole [PDF, 25 KB] EnCirca, Inc 16 March 2005 EnCirca's ProForwarding Service
Letter from Murray Kester to Paul Twomey [PDF, 43 KB] Primus Telecommunications Pty Ltd 16 March 2005 .net Registry Operation
Email from Bruce Tonkin to Tim Cole Melbourne IT 15 March 2005 Panix Review
Email from Tim Cole to Bruce Tonkin ICANN 14 March 2005 Panix Review
Letter from Tim Cole to Thomas Barrett [PDF, 28 KB] ICANN 14 March 2005 EnCirca's "ProForwarding Service"
Letter from Maciej Kozlowski to Paul Twomey [PDF, 69 KB] NASK 2 March 2005 .net Registry Operation
Letter from Julian Rose/ Adrian Snell to ICANN [PDF, 45 KB] Atlas Internet 1 March 2005 TELNIC application for .tel TLD
Letter from Albert Jerka to Paul Twomey [PDF, 63 KB] AZ.PL 25 February 2005 .net Registry Operation
Message from Hakon Haugnes to Tina Dam Global Name Registry 23 February 2005 Monthly Billing Promotion available on .NAME
Letter from Alexei Lesnikov to Paul Twomey [PDF, 83 KB] RU-Center 22 February 2005 Applications for management of .net
Letter from Clint Page to Paul Twomey [PDF, 59 KB] Dotster 17 February 2005 .net Registry
Thomas V. Cunningham to Paul Twomey [PDF, 149 KB] BulkRegister 14 February 2005 .net Registry Proposals
Letter From Jonathan Leibowitz to Paul Twomey [PDF, 858 KB] Federal Trade Commission 9 February 2005 Whois Database
Letter from Bernd Schnell to Paul Twomey [PDF, 59 KB] Portunity GmbH 7 February 2005 Evaluating proposal from registries/take over operation of the .net TLD
Letter from Elliot Noss to Paul Twomey [PDF, 261 KB] Tucows 3 February 2005 .net Registry
Letter from Thomas Horn to Paul Twomey [PDF, 41 KB] IBH 1 February 2005 IBH supports DENIC bid for operation of .net Registry
Letter from Pascal Naitychia to Paul Twomey [PDF, 35 KB] BCIX 31 January 2005 .net
Letter from Uwe Stache to Paul Twomey [PDF, 34 KB] Berlin-one.net 31 January 2005 .net Registry
Letter from Tod Cohen to Paul Twomey [PDF, 31 KB] eBay 28 January 2005 VeriSign's administration of .net
Email from Ravi Puri to Tim Cole Dotster 27 January 2005 PANIX.COM Hijacking
Email from Bruce Tonkin to Tim Cole Melbourne IT 27 January 2005 Public response to ICANN questions on the panix.com issue
Letter from Markus Kramer to Paul Twomey [PDF, 27 KB] synergetic AG 27 January 2005 .net
Letter from Marten Lehman to Paul Twomey [PDF, 27 KB] Variomedia IT-service GmbH 26 January 2005 .net endorsement
Letter from Robert R. Parsons to Paul Twomey [PDF, 36 KB] Go Daddy Software, Inc. 24 January 2005 .NET Registry Operation
Email from Tina Dam to gTLD Registry Operators and Sponsors ICANN 24 January 2005 Temporary increase in registrars access to the SRS
Letter from Klaus Peter v. Friedeburg to Paul Twomey [PDF, 34 KB] ACO 18 January 2005 .net evaluation
Letter from Klaus Metz to Paul Twomey [PDF, 37 KB] GWG 18 January 2005 .net evaluation
Email from Tim Cole to Clint Page ICANN 18 January 2005 ICANN Follow-up on PANIX.COM Hijacking
Email from Tim Cole to Bruce Tonkin ICANN 18 January 2005 ICANN Follow-up on PANIX.COM Hijacking
Letter from Andreas Heckman to Paul Twomey [PDF, 65 KB] mantel + schölzel 18 January 2005 .net evaluation
Email from Tina Dam to gTLD Registry Operators and Sponsors ICANN 12 January 2005 Number of registrar applications
Letter from Jurgen Muller to Paul Twomey [PDF, 69 KB] pro.vider.de internetagentur gmbh 4 January 2005 .NET Operation
Letter from Alexander Grundner-Culemann to Paul Twomey [PDF, 33 KB] SpaceNet AG 4 January 2005 SpaceNet Supports DENIC's bid for .NET
Letter from Shin Yong joong to Paul Twomey [PDF, 74 KB] Korea ISP Association 3 January 2005 Future operation of .NET Top Level Domain
Domain Name System
Internationalized Domain Name ,IDN,"IDNs are domain names that include characters used in the local representation of languages that are not written with the twenty-six letters of the basic Latin alphabet ""a-z"". An IDN can contain Latin letters with diacritical marks, as required by many European languages, or may consist of characters from non-Latin scripts such as Arabic or Chinese. Many languages also use other types of digits than the European ""0-9"". The basic Latin alphabet together with the European-Arabic digits are, for the purpose of domain names, termed ""ASCII characters"" (ASCII = American Standard Code for Information Interchange). These are also included in the broader range of ""Unicode characters"" that provides the basis for IDNs. The ""hostname rule"" requires that all domain names of the type under consideration here are stored in the DNS using only the ASCII characters listed above, with the one further addition of the hyphen ""-"". The Unicode form of an IDN therefore requires special encoding before it is entered into the DNS. The following terminology is used when distinguishing between these forms: A domain name consists of a series of ""labels"" (separated by ""dots""). The ASCII form of an IDN label is termed an ""A-label"". All operations defined in the DNS protocol use A-labels exclusively. The Unicode form, which a user expects to be displayed, is termed a ""U-label"". The difference may be illustrated with the Hindi word for ""test"" — परीका — appearing here as a U-label would (in the Devanagari script). A special form of ""ASCII compatible encoding"" (abbreviated ACE) is applied to this to produce the corresponding A-label: xn--11b5bs1di. A domain name that only includes ASCII letters, digits, and hyphens is termed an ""LDH label"". Although the definitions of A-labels and LDH-labels overlap, a name consisting exclusively of LDH labels, such as""icann.org"" is not an IDN."