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Arbitration: Employ Media v. ICANN

This page collects documents in the arbitration between Employ Media v. ICANN. They are arranged by initial filing date in descending order.

Arbitration: Employ Media v. ICANN
(arbitration before the ICC International Court of Arbitration)

Employ Media's Letter of Withdrawal of Arbitration [PDF, 72 KB] 14 December 2012
Settlement Agreement [PDF, 615 KB] 11 December 2012
6 August 2012
11 May 2012
Terms of Reference [PDF, 1.35 MB] 9 May 2012
Correspondence Regarding Scheduling [PDF, 655 KB] 4 May 2012
Employ Media Letter Regarding Draft Terms of Reference [PDF, 482 KB] 19 April 2012
ICANN Letter Regarding Draft Terms of Reference [PDF, 544 KB] 18 April 2012
Arbitrators' Letter Regarding Draft Terms of Reference* [PDF, 551 KB]

Note: The Terms of Reference will be posted once they are finalized among the parties and the arbitrators.

13 April 2012
ICANN Notes on Terms of Reference [PDF, 2.33 MB] 30 March 2012
Employ Media Notes on Terms of Reference [PDF, 1.02 MB] 30 March 2012
ICC International Court of Arbitration Letter on Recommendation of Chairperson [PDF, 500 KB] 10 February 2012
ICANN Request for Expedited Recommendation of Chairperson [PDF, 36 KB] 3 February 2012
22 July 2011
Request for Arbitration by Employ Media LLC [PDF, 1.85 MB] 3 May 2011
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."