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Contacting ICANN Regarding Contractual Compliance Complaint

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Please refer to the table below to address the most common complaints ICANN receives on registry operators and accredited registrars that may be in violation of the Registry Agreement, Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) and/or the consensus policies.

"Learn More" links to Frequently Asked Questions on common topics. The "Take Action" column links to the appropriate form to file a complaint or lookup data.

Some complaints are outside of ICANN's scope and authority; for example, unsolicited commercial email, or spam. For this type of complaint, a referral is provided.

The information provided to ICANN via the complaint forms is subject to Section 2 of ICANN's Privacy Policy.

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Country Code Domain Names (ccTLDs)

About ccTLD Compliance

ccTLD Compliance

Dispute Resolution Policies & Procedures

Domain Name Dispute/UDRP

Registry-Restriction Dispute Resolution Procedure (RRDRP)

Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS)

Public Interest Commitments Dispute Resolution Procedure (PICDRP)

Trademark Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedure (Trademark PDDRP)

Domain Name Dispute/UDRP

Registry-Restriction Dispute Resolution Procedure (RRDRP) Form

Uniform Rapid Suspension System (URS) Form

Public Interest Commitments Dispute Resolution Procedure (PICDRP) Form

Trademark Post-Delegation Dispute Resolution Procedure (Trademark PDDRP)

Domain Name Management

About Domain Name Management

Domain Name Management

Domain Name Transfer to a Different Registrar

About Domain Name Transfer to a Different Registrar

Transfer Domain Name to Different Registrar

Domain Renewal/Redemption

About Domain Renewal/Redemption

Domain Renewal/Redemption

IP Infringement & Cybersquatting

About IP Infringement & Cybersquatting

IP Infringement & Cybersquatting

New gTLDs

About New gTLDs

Global Support

Registrars

About Registrar Compliance

Registrar Compliance

Registry Compliance

About Registry Compliance

Registry Compliance

Spam, Phishing & Website Content

About Spam, Phishing & Website Content

Spam, Phishing & Website Content

Whois Complaints

About Whois Complaints

Whois Complaints

Whois Inaccuracy

About Whois Inaccuracy

Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form

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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."