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Correspondence Affiliation Date Issue
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Dr. Polys Michaelides [PDF, 246 KB] ICANN 18 December 2009 Comments on the New gTLDs Applicant Guidebook version 3 and the proposed implementation plan for the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process
Letter from Members of the former IRT to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 73 KB] IRT 15 December 2009 Report from the Special Trademark Issues Work Team
Letter from Carissa Etienne to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 119 KB] World Health Organization 9 December 2009 Protection of International Nonproprietary Names
Letter from Maria Del Rosario Guerra, Minister of Information and Communication Technologies to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 1.80 MB] Republic of Colombia 3 December 2009 Wildcard in the .CO
Letter from Viviane Reding to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 121 KB] The European Commission 3 December 2009 Affirmation of Committments
Letter from Chris Disspain to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 62 KB] ccNSO Council 2 December 2009 Survey on the views and attitudes of the ccTLD community regarding ICANN's strategic priorities
Letter from Khashayar Mahdavi to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 37 KB] telnic 2 December 2009 .tel lnternationalized Domain Names (lDNs)
Letter from Philip S. Corwin to Rod Beckstrom, Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 46 KB] Counsel, Internet Commerce Association (ICA) 30 November 2009 ICA Request for ICANN Board and Staff Intervention Re: CAC and WIPO Expedited UDRP Variants
Letter from Craig Spiezle, Executive Director, OTA to Kurt Pritz, Senior Vice President, Services [PDF, 354 KB] The Online Trust Alliance (OTA) 30 November 2009 Comments to ICANN on the New gTLD Program
Message from Zuo Ran to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 29 KB] CONAC 23 November 2009 Seoul Roundtable Discussion
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Diane Casey-Landry, ABA [PDF, 140 KB] ICANN 23 November 2009 Response to Public Comment on Expansion of gTLDs from ABA
Letter from Chris Disspain to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 87 KB] ccNSO Council 21 November 2009 Meaningful representations of country and territory names in the gTLD space
Letter from Jean-Louis Missika to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 111 KB] Mairie de Paris 20 November 2009 Draft Applicant Guidebook v.3 for gTLDs
Letter from James B. Lake to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 169 KB] Thomas, LoCicero & Bralow 20 November 2009 Proposed top-level domain policies
Letter from Viviane Reding to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 43 KB] The European Commission 16 November 2009 Internationalized Domain Names country code Top Level Domain in a fast track
Letter from Patty Evanoff to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 301 KB] Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, Canada 13 November 2009 Proposal to Introduce .BANK gTLD
Letter from Ray Fassett to Craig Schwartz [PDF, 34 KB] Employ Media LLC 11 November 2009 .JOBS Fee Amendment Request
Letter from Maria del Rosario Guerra to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 49 KB] Minister of lnformation and Communications Technologies - Republic of Colombia 9 November 2009 ICANN meeting location
Letter from Expressions of Interest Working Group to ICANN [PDF, 128 KB] Expressions of Interest Working Group 6 November 2009 Expressions of Interest Working Group Proposed Outputs
Letter from Expressions of Interest Working Group to ICANN [PDF, 104 KB] Expressions of Interest Working Group 6 November 2009 Expressions of Interest Working Group Draft Charter
Letter from Expressions of Interest Working Group to ICANN [PDF, 36 KB] Expressions of Interest Working Group 6 November 2009 Expressions of Interest Working Group
Message from J. Scott Evans to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 36 KB] Intellectual Property Constituency 3 November 2009 Coalition Against Domain Name Abuse (CADNA)
Letter from Richard Currey to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 98 KB] InternetNZ 31 October 2009 Financial Contribution, Affirmation of Commitments, IANA function, DNSSEC, IDN ccTLDs, Directors Fees
Letter from Ariel Graizer to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 517 KB] CABASE 23 October 2009 Request to Host December 2010 ICANN Meeting
Letter from Dr. Polys Michaelides to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 206 KB] Office of the Commissioner, Electronic Communications and Postal Regulation, Republic of Cyprus 23 October 2009 Draft Applicant Guidebook v.3 for gTLDs and Proposed Final Implementation Plan for IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process
Letter from Jonathan Shea to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 117 KB] Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association 22 October 2009 IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process
Letter from Christine C. Quinn to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 54 KB] The Council of the City of New York 21 October 2009 .GAY gTLD
Letter from Robin Gross to Rod Beckstrom and Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 85 KB] NCUC Chair 20 October 2009 Clearing Up Any Misperceptions that NCUC is Opposed to the Creation of Constituencies in the NCSG
Letter from Doug Brent to Hank Johnson, Chair, Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy [PDF, 812 KB] ICANN 16 October 2009 Addendum to Oral Testimony from 23 September 2009
Letter from Doug Brent to Hank Johnson, Chair, Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy [PDF, 995 KB] ICANN 16 October 2009 Corrections to Transcript of Testimony from 23 September 2009
Letter from Khaled Fattal to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 429 KB] MINC, IPAC IDNs, Live Multilingual Translator, WebSynergys Inc. 15 October 2009 Create a New Supporting Organisation-IDNSO
Letter from Olaf Kolkman to CEO/Board [PDF, 23 KB] Chair, IAB 14 October 2009 On the "Scaling the Root" Study
Letter from Axel Pawlik, Rob Blokzijl, Jim Reid to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 64 KB] RIPE 13 October 2009 RIPE Community Statement on Signing the Root Zone
Letter from Hal Lubsen, CEO Afilias, Alexa Raad, CEO PIR, and Keith Drazek, Director, Government and Industry Relations, Neustar to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 89 KB] Afilias, PIR and Neustar 12 October 2009 Registry/Registrar Separation
Letter from Akossi Akossi to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 4.60 MB] African Telecommunications Union 8 October 2009 Affirmation of Commitments
Letter from Jonathan Shea to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 411 KB] APTLD 6 October 2009 Congratulations on Affirmation
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Jonathan Shea, Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association [PDF, 115 KB] ICANN 6 October 2009 IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Robin Gross, NCUC/NCUC [PDF, 125 KB] ICANN 6 October 2009 Response to 18 August 2009 Letter re: Problems with the NCSG Charter, and to Address Continuing Misperception About Noncommercial Involvement in ICANN
Letter from Mark McLaughlin to Wall Street Journal [PDF, 94 KB] VeriSign 5 October 2009 Affirmation of Commitments
Letter from Byron Holland to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 49 KB] Canadian Internet Registration Authority 2 October 2009 Affirmation of Commitments
Letter from Michele J. Neylon to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 66 KB] Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd 30 September 2009 Congratulations From Ireland
Letter from Stephen Deerhake to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 12 KB] CEO, GDNS Inc 30 September 2009 Response to correspondence from Minds & Machines
Letter from David W. Maher, Chair, Registries Constituency to Janis Karklins, Chairman of the Governmental Advisory Committee [PDF, 25 KB] Registries Constituency 25 September 2009 Version 2 of ICANN's Draft Applicant Guidebook
Letter from David W. Maher, Chair, Registries Constituency to Hank Johnson, Chair, Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy [PDF, 17 KB] Registries Constituency 24 September 2009 Hearing on The Expansion of Top Level Domains and its Effects on Competition
Letter from Mauricio Macri to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 433 KB] Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires 22 September 2009 Request to Host December 2010 ICANN Meeting in Buenos Aires
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Janis Karklins [PDF, 1.39 MB] ICANN 22 September 2009 Comments to Applicant Guidebook version 2
Letter from Antony Van Couvering, Paul Stahura, Jonathon Nevett, et.al. to Messrs. Beckstrom, Dengate Thrush, Brent, Pritz [PDF, 139 KB] Minds & Machines, eNom, Network Solutions 21 September 2009 Support for New gTLDs
Letter from Erik Wilbers to John Jeffrey [PDF, 2.96 MB] WIPO 17 September 2009 Revision of UDRP Implementation Rules
Letter from Lamar Smith and Brian Coble, House Committee on the Judiciary to Rod Beckstrom Presdident and CEO [PDF, 972 KB] House Committee on the Judiciary 15 September 2009 New gTLD program and expiration of the Joint Project Agreement (JPA)
Letter from Richard Tindal to Peter Dengate Thrush and Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 1.82 MB] eNom 10 September 2009 Registry/Registrar Cross Ownership
Message from Alexa Raad to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 86 KB] .ORG, The Public Interest Registry 9 September 2009 Proposed Registry/Registrant Vertical Integration
Letter from Jonathan Shea to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 139 KB] Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association 31 August 2009 IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua lll [PDF, 37 KB] ICANN 26 August 2009 Nomination of a Philippine representative to the Governmental Advisory Committee
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Professors Qian and Tseng, CDNC [PDF, 100 KB] ICANN 24 August 2009 Internationalised Domain Names
Letter from Rod Beckstrom to Francis Gurry, WIPO [PDF, 37 KB] ICANN 21 August 2009 Congratulations on appointment as CEO
Letter from Patrick Baumann, Chairman, and Mike Miller, Vice Chairman, .SPORT Policy Advisory Council to Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO [PDF, 99 KB] .SPORT Policy Advisory Council 20 August 2009 International Sports Federations Support for an Orderly Introduction of New Top-Level Domains ("TLD")
Letter from Janis Karklins the Chairman of the Governmental Advisory Committee, Ambassador of Latvia to France to Peter Dengate Thrush, the Chairman of the Board [PDF, 296 KB] Governmental Advisory Committee 18 August 2009 GAC Comments to Revised New GTLD Applicant Guidebook v2
Letter from Members of the Noncommercial Users Constituency (NCUC) to ICANN Board and Mr. Rod Beckstrom, ICANN President and CEO [PDF, 687 KB] NCUC 18 August 2009 Call to the ICANN Board to Correct Problems with the NCSG Charter, and to Address Continuing Misperceptions About Noncommercial Involvement in ICANN
Letter from David Bell, CEO of ABA to Rod Beckstrom President and CEO [PDF, 41 KB] Australian Bankers Association (ABA) 11 August 2009 Comments to Generic Top Level Domains - Draft Applicant Guidebook
Letter from Ray Anthony Roxas-Chua III to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 57 KB] Commission on Information and Communications Technology (CICT) of the Government of the Republic of the Philippines 3 August 2009 Nomination of a Philippine representative to the Governmental Advisory Committee
Letter from Luis Pacheco de Melo to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 32 KB] Portugal Telecom 31 July 2009 Designated representative in ICANN
Letter from Professors Qian and Tseng, Chinese Domain Name Consortium to Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO ICANN [PDF, 105 KB] Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC) 29 July 2009 Internationalised Domain Names
Letter from Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Madame Secretary of State to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 75 KB] Republique Francaise, Premier Ministre 29 July 2009 Congratulations on Appointment to CEO Position
Letter from Alan C. Drewsen, Executive Director of INTA to Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO [PDF, 572 KB] International Trademark Association (INTA) 24 July 2009 Comments on unlimited number of New gTLDs
Letter from Francis Gurry to Rod Beckstrom [PDF, 81 KB] WIPO 23 July 2009 Congratulations on appointment as CEO
Letter from Jonathan E. Johnson III, President to Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Rod Beckstrom, President and CEO [PDF, 687 KB] Overstock.com 22 July 2009 Comments of Overstock.com, Inc to the Final Report of the Implementation Recommendation Team on Trademark Protection
Letter from Edouard Dayan to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 127 KB] Universal Postal Union 19 June 2009 ICANN/UPU Negotiations for .POST sTLD
Letter from Erik Wilbers to Kurt Pritz, John Jeffrey, Amy Stathos and Caroline Chicoine [PDF, 65 KB] WIPO 18 June 2009 Comments on IRT Final Report
Letter from Catherine Sigmar to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 23 KB] .PRO 17 June 2009 Registry-registrar separation
Letter from Catherine Sigmar to Kurt Pritz [PDF, 43 KB] RegistryPro 17 June 2009 Proposed .PRO Fee Amendment
Letter from Stacy Burnette to Manita Malik [PDF, 79 KB] ICANN 10 June 2009 Notice of Breach of ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement
Letter from Stacy Burnette to Anthony Bourov [PDF, 80 KB] ICANN 10 June 2009 Notice of Termination of Registrar Accreditation Agreement
Letter from Stacy Burnette to Manetirony Clervrain [PDF, 74 KB] ICANN 10 June 2009 Notice of Termination of Registrar Accreditation Agreement
Letter from Stacy Burnette to Aries Ho [PDF, 75 KB] ICANN 10 June 2009 Notice of Termination of Registrar Accreditation Agreement
Letter from Stacy Burnette to J. Mark Young [PDF, 69 KB] ICANN 10 June 2009 Notice of Termination of Registrar Accreditation Agreement
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Edouard Dayan [PDF, 1.87 MB] ICANN 10 June 2009 ICANN/UPU Negotiations for .POST sTLD
Letter from Jonathan Spencer to John Jeffrey [PDF, 506 KB] VeriSign 9 June 2009 .name: Shortfall In Transaction Fees Due To Unreported I-Year Activations
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Fiona Alexander [PDF, 567 KB] ICANN 8 June 2009 NTIA's Notice of Inquiry
Letter from Peter Dengate Thrush to Anna Gomez [PDF, 117 KB] National Telecommunications and Information Administration 28 May 2009 Signing the root zone
Letter from Janis Karklins, Chair, GAC to Paul Twomey, CEO & President, ICANN [PDF, 72 KB] GAC 26 May 2009 Geographic names at the second level
Message from Richard Tindal SVP - Registry, Demand Media, and Paul Stahura, CSO, Demand Media, and Founder of eNo to Paul Twomey and Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 139 KB] Afilias, PIR and Neustar 15 May 2009 Proposed changes to the Registry Registrar separation
Letter from Jonathon L. Nevett to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 49 KB] Network Solutions 15 May 2009 Proposed changes to the Registry Registrar separation
Letter from Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Paul Twomey [PDF, 45 KB] Autonomica AB 8 May 2009 Root Server Letters
Letter from Alexa Raad to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 994 KB] CEO Dot Org 8 May 2009 Proposed changes to the Registry Registrar separation
Letter from Axel Pawlik to Paul Twomey [PDF, 307 KB] RIPE NCC 6 May 2009 Root Server Letters
Letter from Jun Murai to Paul Twomey [PDF, 372 KB] The WIDE Project 6 May 2009 Root Server Letters
Letter from Tim Switzer to Peter Dengate Thrush and Paul Twomey [PDF, 177 KB] VP of Registry Services 1 May 2009 NeuStar proposal to release one and two-character second-level .BIZ domains
Letter from Kurt Pritz to Fiona Alexander [PDF, 62 KB] ICANN 29 April 2009 Proposed Amendments to Registrar Accreditation Agreement
Letter from Janis Karklins to Paul Twomey [PDF, 95 KB] Governmental Advisory Committee 24 April 2009 New gTLDs: Geographical Names
Letter from Janis Karklins to Paul Twomey [PDF, 54 KB] Governmental Advisory Committee 24 April 2009 GAC travel support
Letter from Steve Metalitz and Claudio DiGangi to Doug Brent [PDF, 293 KB] Intellectual Property Constituency 24 April 2009 Circumvention of Registrar Accreditation Agreement Section 3.7.7.3
Letter from Paul Twomey to Adiel A. Akplogan [PDF, 190 KB] ICANN 17 April 2009 Extension of exchange of letters between ICANN and NRO/RIRs
Letter from Anoop Gupta, Corporate Vice President to Peter Dengate Thrush and Paul Twomey [PDF, 69 KB] Microsoft 13 April 2009 Comments of Microsoft Corporation on technical Considerations relating to the Introduction of New gTLDs
Letter from Michele Cantley, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer and Hope Mehlman, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel to Peter Dengate Thrush and Paul Twomey [PDF, 463 KB] Regions 13 April 2009 Regions Financial Corporation's Comments on Draft Applicant Guidebook Version 2
Letter from Sarah B. Deutsch, Vice President and Associate General Counsel to Peter Dengate Thrush and Paul Twomey [PDF, 322 KB] Verizon 13 April 2009 Comments to Revised New GTLD Applicant Guidebook v2
Letter from Erik Wilbers to John Jeffrey and David Giza [PDF, 11 KB] WIPO 9 April 2009 Registrar Lead Networks Domains Pvt. Ltd.
Letter from Craig Schwartz to Jonathan Spencer [PDF, 78 KB] ICANN 8 April 2009 .NAME Assignment and Amended RRA
Letter from Edouard Dayan to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 46 KB] Universal Postal Union 8 April 2009 ICANN/UPU Negotiations for .POST sTLD
Letter from Peter Kjaer, Deputy General Counsel to Paul Twomey [PDF, 70 KB] Lego 6 April 2009 Comments to ICANN regarding New gTLD . brand
Letter from Erik Wilbers to Kurt Pritz, John Jeffrey and Amy Stathos [PDF, 6.83 KB] WIPO 3 April 2009 WIPO RPM Discussion Draft
Letter from Adiel A. Akplogan to Paul Twomey [PDF, 351 KB] Chair (2009), Number Resource Organization 23 March 2009 Extension of exchange of letters between ICANN and NRO/RIRs
Letter from Dr. Paul Twomey to Under-Secretary General Sha Zukang [PDF, 202 KB] ICANN 20 March 2009 Enhanced Cooperation Letter
Letter from Paul Twomey to Janis Karklins [PDF, 245 KB] ICANN 17 March 2009 New gTLDs: geographic names at the second level
Letter from Erik Wilbers to Kurt Pritz, John Jeffrey, Amy Stathos [PDF, 13.35 MB] WIPO 13 March 2009 New gTLDs: Trademark-based Post-delegation Dispute Resolution
Letter from Janis Karklins to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 264 KB] Governmental Advisory Committee 10 March 2009 GAC comments on new gTLD Applicant Guidebook version 1 and IDN ccTLD Fast Track methodology version 1
Letter from Jonathan Spencer to John Jeffrey [PDF, 119 KB] VeriSign 2 March 2009 Assignment of .name Registry Agreement
Letter from Paul Twomey to Janis Karklins [PDF, 2.56 MB] Chairman of the Governmental Advisory Committee 24 February 2009 Update on current and proposed work on WHOIS data research and analysis
Letter from Paul Twomey to Mons. Carlo Maria Polvani [PDF, 458 KB] ICANN 24 February 2009 Response to Holy See statement regarding New gTLDs
Letter from Mons. Carlo Maria Polvani to Paul Twomey [PDF, 39 KB] The Holy See 20 February 2009 Statement regarding delegation of new gTLDs
Letter from Edouard Dayan to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 111 KB] Universal Postal Union 11 February 2009 ICANN/UPU Negotiations for .POST sTLD
Letter from Harald Summa to Paul Twomey [PDF, 72 KB] ECO, Germany 4 February 2009 Questions from potential applicants for new gTLDs
Letter from Stacy Burnette to Kevin Bordes [PDF, 135 KB] ICANN 4 February 2009 Notice of Breach of Registrar Accreditation Agreement
Letter from Jorgen Abild Andersen to Peter Dengate Thrush [PDF, 51 KB] Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation, National IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark 22 January 2009 Comments to ICANN regarding New gTLDs
Letter from Kristine Dorrain to John Jeffrey [PDF, 91 KB] National Arbitration Forum 20 January 2009 Paperless UDRP
Letter from Janis Karklins to Paul Twomey [PDF, 32 KB] Governmental Advisory Committee 15 January 2009 Correspondence with governments
Letter from John Jeffrey to Jonathan Spencer [PDF, 916 KB] ICANN 12 January 2009 .NAME gTLD Registry
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."