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Date Correspondence Sender Affiliation Issue Related Correspondence
24 December 2012 David Maher to Fadi Chehadé [Published 9 January 2013] Senior Vice President - Law & Policy | Public Interest Registry (PIR) .org Public Interest Registry (PIR) .ORG Notice of Fee Increase  
22 December 2012 Jonathan Robinson to Steve Crocker and Heather Dryden [Published 15 January 2013] Chair | GNSO Council Accountability & Transparency Review Team 2 (ATRT 2)  
21 December 2012 NTAG to Christine Willett [Published 3 January 2013] New gTLD Applicant Group Deadlines in New gTLD Program  
19 December 2012 Jonathan R. Spencer to Fadi Chehadé [Published 30 August 2016] Vice President and Associate General Counsel | VeriSign, Inc. Notice of Price Increase for .Net Domain Name Registrations  
18 December 2012 Rinat Zakirov to Steve Crocker [Published 16 January 2013] Chairman of the Executive Committee | The World Congress of Tatars The Applied-for New gTLD .tatar Zakirov to Crocker [Published 1 October 2012]
18 December 2012 Prof. Dr. Ali M. Abbasov to Fadi Chehadé [Published 4 January 2013] Minister of Communications and Information Technologies | The Republic of Azerbaijan ICANN's Participation in the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)  
14 December 2012 Fadi Chehadé to Dr. Mongi Marzoug [Published 17 December 2012] President and CEO | ICANN Re: Tunisian ICT Ministry Discussion of Post-IGF Plans for ICANN Engagement Dr. Mongi Marzoug to Fadi Chehadé [Published 17 December 2012]
7 December 2012 Steve Crocker to Heather Dryden [Published 10 December 2012] Chair of the Board of Directors | ICANN Re: GAC Communique from ICANN 45 Meeting in Toronto, Canada Crocker to Dryden [Published 17 January 2013]
5 December 2012 Norbert van den Hove and Roelof Meijer to Steve Crocker [Published 12 February 2013] Management Team, Telecommunications Market Department; Director | Ministry of Economic Affairs; Stichting Internet Domeinregistratie Nederland Last resort re-delegation scenario for .nl domain Steve Crocker to Norbert van den Hove and Roelof Meijer [Published 12 February 2013]
4 December 2012 Dr. Mongi Marzoug to Fadi Chehadé [Published 17 December 2012] Minister | Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies Tunisian ICT Ministry Discussion of Post-IGF Plans for ICANN Engagement Fadi Chehadé to Dr. Mongi Marzoug [Published 17 December 2012]
29 November 2012 Carwyn Jones to Fadi Chehadé [Published 4 January 2013] First Minister | Welsh Government ICANN's Proposed Draw and Release Mechanisms for gTLDs Christine Willett to Carwyn Jones [Published 13 March 2013]
27 November 2012 Linda Corugedo Steneberg to the ICANN Board (With Annexes) [Published 30 November 2012] European Commission Interim position of the European Commission concerning the applications for New gTLDs Steneberg to the ICANN Board [Published 29 November 2012]
27 November 2012 Linda Corugedo Steneberg to the ICANN Board [Published 29 November 2012] European Commission Interim position of the European Commission concerning the applications for New gTLDs Steneberg to ICANN Board (with Annexes) [Published 30 November 2012]
21 November 2012 Carmen A. Catizone to Steve Crocker and Heather Dryden [Published 24 January 2013] Executive Director/Secretary | National Association of Boards of Pharmacy New gTLD Application for .pharmacy  
16 November 2012 Jeffrey Smith to Fadi Chehadé [Published 29 January 2013] CEO | Commercial Connect, LLC New gTLD Application Process  
16 November 2012 BIO et al. to Fadi Chehadé [Published 4 January 2013] The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) et al. Opposition to the Application for the gTLD Name Extension ".bio" Christine Willett to BIO [Published 1 February 2013]
15 November 2012 Steve Crocker to Heather Dryden [Published 15 November 2012] Chair of the Board of Directors | ICANN Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part C Recommendations  
9 November 2012 Eduardo Paes to Fadi Chehadé and Cherine Chalaby [Published 25 January 2013] Mayor | City of Rio de Janeiro New gTLD Applied-For String .RIO Christine Willett to Eduardo Paes [Published 22 April 2013]
7 November 2012 Jonathan Robinson to the ICANN Board [Published 8 November 2012] Chair | GNSO Council WHOIS Review Team Final Report  
5 November 2012 ICANN, NTIA, and Verisign to the ICANN Board and SSAC [Published 9 November 2012]
  • ICANN
  • NTIA
  • Verisign
Regarding SSAC Letter dated 2 July 2012 Recommendation 2 Fältström to the ICANN Board [Published 5 July 2012]
5 November 2012 Fadi Chehadé to the ICANN Community [Published 5 November 2012] President and CEO | ICANN ICANN's Roadmap to Beijing  
2 November 2012 ICANN to Internet Society of China [Published 5 November 2012] ICANN Re: New gTLD Batching Process ISC to ICANN [Published 10 May 2012]
2 November 2012 Christine Willett to Ernst Stocker [Published 5 November 2012] New gTLD Program General Manager | ICANN Re: New gTLD Program – Batching and the Public Interest: .ZUERICH Stocker to Crocker [Published 5 November 2012]
2 November 2012 Christine Willett to Carsten Brosda [Published 5 November 2012] New gTLD Program General Manager | ICANN Re: New gTLD Program – Batching and the Public Interest: .HAMBURG Brosda to Crocker [Published 5 November 2012]
2 November 2012 Christine Willett to Franz Josef Pschierer [Published 5 November 2012] New gTLD Program General Manager | ICANN Re: New gTLD Program – Batching and the Public Interest: .BAYERN Pschierer to Crocker [Published 5 November 2012]
2 November 2012 Christine Willett to Günther Platter [Published 5 November 2012] New gTLD Program General Manager | ICANN Re: New gTLD Program – Batching and the Public Interest: .TIROL Platter to Crocker [Published 5 November 2012]
1 November 2012 NCSG to ICANN [Published 2 November 2012] Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) Re: IPC-BC's Proposal for Additional Rights Protection Measures (RPM)
30 October 2012 David Panos to Stephen Crocker, Fadi Chehadé, and Kurt Pritz [Published 30 October 2012] Director | United TLD Holdco, Ltd. Re: Application by United TLD for the .REPUBLICAN gTLD Priebus and Jankowski to ICANN [Published 2 October 2012]
24 October 2012 NTAG to ICANN [Published 26 October 2012] New gTLD Applicant Group Re: Rights Protection Measures (RPM) Improvements
17 October 2012 Steve Metalitz to Kurt Pritz [Published 17 October 2012] President | GNSO Intellectual Property Constituency Joint BC-IPC Position Regarding Rights Protection Measures (RPM) Improvements As Second Level
15 October 2012 Heather Dryden to Fadi Chehadé and the ICANN Board [Published 15 November 2012] Chair | GAC Chair's Summary of the High Level Meeting - Toronto  
14 October 2012 Brad White to Journalists [Published 11 October 2012] Director, Global Media Affairs | ICANN Welcome to ICANN's 45th Public Meeting in Toronto  
13 October 2012 Steve Crocker to Heather Dryden [Published 15 October 2012] Chairman of the ICANN Board | ICANN Response to GAC Communiqué, Prague  
12 October 2012 NTAG to ICANN [Published 13 October 2012] New gTLD Applicant Group Concerns about Community Inclusion in the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH) Program  
9 October 2012

Patrik Fältström to the ICANN Board [Published 31 October 2012]

Chair | SSAC SSAC Advisory on Impacts of Content Blocking via the Domain Name System  
9 October 2012 Fadi Chehadé to Jacob Kohnstamm [Published 10 October 2012] President and CEO | ICANN Re: Comments on the Data Protection Impact of the Revision of the ICANN RAA Concerning Accuracy and Data Retention of WHOIS Data Kohnstamm to Crocker and Atallah [Published 8 October 2012]
8 October 2012 ICANN to Drafting Group Members [Published 9 October 2012] ICANN Comments on Alternative Implementation Proposals  
4 October 2012 Lawrence Strickling to Steve Crocker [Published 4 October 2012] The Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information | United States Department of Commerce Re: New gTLD Program
3 October 2012 Fadi Chehadé to Thomas Stelzer [Published 4 October 2012] President and CEO | ICANN IGO Domain Names Stelzer to Atallah [Published 17 July 2012]
1 October 2012 Jian Zhang to ICANN [Published 30 November 2012] General Manager | Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Association (APTLD) Comments on Transliterated TLDs  
1 October 2012 Rinat Zakirov to Steve Crocker [Published 1 October 2012]
  • Chairman of the Executive Committee | The World Congress of Tatars; and
  • Member of Parliament | The Republic of Tatarstan
New gTLD Application for .tatar Zakirov to Crocker [Published 16 January 2013]
26 September 2012 NTAG to BC [Published 4 October 2012] New gTLD Applicant Group New gTLD Objection Filing Period Cade to Chalaby [Published 21 December 2012]
26 September 2012 Jacob Kohnstamm to Steve Crocker and Akram Atallah [Published 8 October 2012] Chairman of the Article 29 | Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, European Commission Comments on the Data Protection Impact of the Revision of the ICANN RAA Concerning Accuracy and Data Retention of WHOIS Data Chehadé to Kohnstamm [Published 10 October 2012]
25 September 2012 Kleiman to the ICANN Board and CEO, GAC Members, Evaluators, the Independent Objector and Members of the ICANN Community [Published 28 September 2012] Internet Counsel | Fletcher, Heald, & Hildreth Regarding TLD Concerns  
25 September 2012 Steve Crocker to Jun Murai, Chair of RSSAC [Published 25 September 2012] Chairman of the ICANN Board | ICANN Response to SSAC Letter of 2 July Regarding the New Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Process Fältström to the ICANN Board [Published 5 July 2012]
25 September 2012 Steve Crocker to Patrik Fältström, Chair of SSAC [Published 25 September 2012] Chairman of the ICANN Board | ICANN Response to SSAC Letter of 2 July Regarding the New Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Process Fältström to the ICANN Board [Published 5 July 2012]
24 September 2012 Michele Neylon, et al. to Fadi Chehadé, Steve Crocker, Akram Atallah, Alain Pellet, and Heather Dryden [Published 24 September 2012] Michele Neylon, et al. Re: Single Registrant Generic TLDs  
19 September 2012 Fadi Chehadé to Senate and House Judiciary Committee Chairmen Patrick Leahy, Lamar Smith, Charles E. Grassley, John Conyers, Jr. [Published 20 September 2012] President and CEO | ICANN Re: Concerns About the New gTLD Expansion
14 September 2012 Reince Priebus and J. Christopher Jankowski to ICANN [Published 2 October 2012]
  • Chairman | Republican National Committee (RNC)
  • President | Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC)
Opposition to the Application by United TLD for the .REPUBLICAN gTLD Panos to Crocker, Chehadé, and Pritz [Published 30 October 2012]
13 September 2012

Patrik Fältström to the ICANN Board [Published 12 October 2012]

Chair | SSAC SSAC Comment on the WHOIS Review Team Final Report  
13 September 2012 Lesley Cowley to Bertrand de La Chapelle [Published 5 October 2012] Chair | ccNSO Re: Impact of the New gTLD Program on ICANN Structure and Processes De La Chapelle to SOs, ACs, Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies [Published 5 October 2012]
11 September 2012 Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond to Steve Crocker [Published 30 October 2012] Chair | At-Large Advisory Committee ALAC Analysis of AoC WHOIS Review Recommendations  
10 September 2012 David Panos to Akram Atallah, Kurt Pritz, and John Jeffrey [Published 10 September 2012] Director | United TLD Holdco, Ltd. Re: New gTLD Applications of Demand Media, Inc. Stoler to Crocker [Published 14 August 2012]
7 September 2012 Matt Serlin to Bertrand de La Chapelle [Published 22 October 2012] Chair | Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG) Re: Impact of the New gTLD Program on ICANN Structure and Processes De La Chapelle to SOs, ACs, Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies [Published 5 October 2012]
5 September 2012 Marilyn Cade to Cherine Chalaby [Published 21 December 2012] GNSO Business Constituency New gTLD Objection Filing Period NTAG to BC [Published 4 October 2012]
5 September 2012 NTAG to ICANN [Published 5 September 2012] New gTLD Applicant Group New gTLD Communications and Support  
1 September 2012 David Maher to Cherine Chalaby, Akram Atallah, and Kurt Pritz [Published 1 September 2012] Chair | Registries Stakeholder Group Timelines and Milestones in New gTLD Program  
17 August 2012 Marilyn Cade, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond and Steve Metalitz to Steve Crocker [Published 20 August 2012]
  • Chair | GNSO Business Constituency
  • Chair | At-Large Advisory Committee
  • President | GNSO Intellectual Property Constituency
Board Decision to Renew the .com Agreement Without Thick Whois  
17 August 2012 George Minardos to Stephen D. Crocker [Published 20 August 2012] Minardos Group Support for ICANN's New gTLD Program
8 August 2012 Registries Stakeholder Group to the ICANN Board of Directors [Published 10 August 2012] Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) Increase in Number of Registries  
7 August 2012 Sophia Bekele to Akram Atallah [Published 10 August 2012] Executive Director | DotConnectAfrica (DCA) An Official Note to ICANN Leaders to Convey a Suggestion on the Type of Candidate to Replace Ms. Anne-Rachel Inné  
7 August 2012 Senate and House Judiciary Committee Chairmen Patrick Leahy, Lamar Smith, Charles E. Grassley, John Conyers, Jr. to Akram Atallah [Published 10 August 2012] Chairman Senate Judiciary Committee; Chairman House Judiciary Committee; Ranking Member Senate Judiciary Committee; Ranking Member House Judiciary Committee | Congress of the United States Concerns About the New gTLD Expansion
3 August 2012 Bertrand de La Chapelle to SOs, ACs, Stakeholder Groups and Constituencies [Published 5 October 2012] Board Member | ICANN; and Internet & Jurisdiction Project Director | Académie Diplomatique Internationale Impact of the New gTLD Program on ICANN Structure and Processes
3 August 2012 Ambassador Alfredo Morelli to Steve Crocker [Published 28 August 2012] Director | Unit of Technology and Energy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina The Use of Patagonia's Region Name for a Closed Brand New gTLD  
3 August 2012 Steve Metalitz to Kurt Pritz [Published 7 August 2012] President | Intellectual Property Constituency (IPC) Deadline for Public Comments on New gTLD Applications  
31 July 2012 Brights Consulting, Inc. to Sébastien Bachollet [Published 9 August 2012] Brights Consulting Inc. ICANN Language Services Policy  
30 July 2012 Robert D. Liodice to Akram Atallah [Published 1 August 2012] President and CEO | The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Extension of the Application Public Comment Window for New gTLDs  
28 July 2012 Jeffrey Stoler to Steve Crocker, et al. [Published 14 August 2012] Partner | McCarter & English, LLP gTLD Applications of Demand Media, Inc. and Donuts, Inc. Panos to Atallah, Pritz, and Jeffrey [Published 10 September 2012]
27 July 2012 Stephen Crocker to Heather Dryden [Published 31 July 2012] Chair | ICANN Board Processing of Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) Dryden to Crocker [Published 18 June 2012]
26 July 2012 Alain Berranger to NPOC [Published 7 August 2012] Member, Board of Directors | CECI Consultation to all NPOC members regarding IFRC's request on "Protection of Red Cross/Red Crescent Designations in the Domain Name System"  
26 July 2012 NTAG to Cherine Chalaby and Members of the ICANN Board Committee on New gTLDs [Published 26 July 2012] New gTLD Applicant Group Sequencing of New gTLD Applications  
25 July 2012 Benoit Battistelli to Rod Beckstrom [Published 25 July 2012] European Patent Office Expansion of Generic Top Level Domains  
24 July 2012 Abdulaziz Al-Zoman to Akram Atallah [Published 7 August 2012] Personal Capacity Important Issues Related to the New gTLD Program  
21 July 2012 Annalisa Roger to the GAC [Published 2 August 2012] Founder/CEO | The DotGreen Community, Inc. The New gTLD Program and the Public Interest  
19 July 2012 Francisco Vera Hott to Steve Crocker and Akram Atallah [Published 26 October 2012] Vice-President | ONG Derechos Digitales Registrar Accreditation Agreement (RAA) and Privacy  
16 July 2012 Dmitry Burkov to the ICANN Board [Published 17 July 2012] Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development | Foundation for Assistance for Internet Technologies and Infrastructure Development (FAITID) Support of the SSAC Letter to the ICANN Board
11 July 2012 T. Stelzer to Akram Atallah [Published 17 July 2012] UN Assistant Secretary General | United Nations IGO Domain Names Chehadé to Stelzer [Published 4 October 2012]
5 July 2012 Greg Simeri to Rod Beckstrom [Published 25 January 2013] Personal Capacity Special Characters  
4 July 2012 Stéphane Van Gelder, Chair, GNSO Council, to Fadi Chehadé, CEO, ICANN, and Akram Attalah, Interim CEO, ICANN [Published 4 July 2012] Chair | GNSO Council Welcome to ICANN  
2 July 2012 Patrik Fältström to the ICANN Board [Published 5 July 2012] Chair | SSAC New Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) Process
1 July 2012 Juan Manuel Cid to Stephen D. Crocker [Published 25 January 2013] Province of Cordoba in the Argentinean Republic Objection to Application .cba  
27 June 2012 Ernst Stocker to Steve Crocker [Published 5 November 2012] Government Councillor and Head of the Department for Economic Affairs | The Canton of Zurich New gTLD Program – Batching and the Public Interest: .ZUERICH Willett to Stocker [Published 5 November 2012]
26 June 2012 Leslie Cowley to Sébastien Bachollet [Published 27 June 2012] Chair of the ccNSO | ccNSO Problem with Public Comment Periods  
25 June 2012 Theo Hnarakis to Cherine Chalaby [Published 15 August 2012] CEO and Managing Director | Melbourne IT Ltd Digital Archery Batching Process for New gTLD Applications Hnarakis to the ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee [Published 20 August 2012]
22 June 2012 Barbara Ann Clay to Dr. Abdulaziz H. Al-Zoman [Published 22 June 2012] Vice President for Communications | ICANN Display of Applied-for Arabic Domain Names  
22 June 2012 Brad White to Journalists [Published 22 June 2012] Director, Global Media Affairs | ICANN Welcome to ICANN's 44th Public Meeting in Prague  
19 June 2012 Franz Josef Pschierer to Stephen D. Crocker [Published 5 November 2012] Der IT-Beauftragte der Bayerischen Staatsregierung New gTLD Program – Batching and the Public Interest: .BAYERN Willett to Pschierer [Published 5 November 2012]
17 June 2012 Heather Dryden to Stephen Crocker [Published 18 June 2012] Chair | Governmental Advisory Committee Processing of Applications for New Generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs) Crocker to Dryden [Published 31 July 2012]
12 June 2012 Leslie Cowley to Elise Gerich [Published 26 June 2012] Chair | ccNSO Re: Inquiry About ISO 3166 Two-Letter Codes  
8 June 2012 Nacho Amadoz to New gTLD Programme Committee [Published 8 June 2012] Chairman | ECLID New gTLD Batching Process  
6 June 2012 Christian Schwenke to Nick Tomasso [Published 8 June 2012] Director of Business Development | Hilton Prague Accommodation blocks for ICANN 44 at the Hilton Prague hotel  
6 June 2012 Adrian Kinderis to Cherine Chalaby [Published 8 June 2012] CEO | ARI Registry Services New gTLD Program | Digital Archery and Batching Processes  
30 May 2012 Theo Hnarakis to the ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee [Published 20 August 2012] CEO and Managing Director | Melbourne IT Limited Digital Archery Batching Method Hnarakis to Chalaby [Published 15 August 2012]
15 May 2012 Philip Sbarbaro to John Jeffrey [Published 25 May 2012] Senior Counsel | Depository, Inc. Depository, Inc.'s Requests to ICANN's for Assistance  
10 May 2012 Rod Beckstrom to Chen Yin [Published 21 May 2012] President and CEO | ICANN New gTLD Program Yin to Beckstrom and Crocker [Published 21 May 2012]
10 May 2012 来自中国互联网协会的意见 [Published 10 May 2012] 中国互联网协会对 新 gTLD 计划分批处理 ICANN to ISC [Published 5 November 2012]
10 May 2012 Internet Society of China to ICANN [Published 10 May 2012] Internet Society of China New gTLD Batching Process ICANN to ISC [Published 5 November 2012]
9 May 2012 Steve Metalitz to the ICANN Board New gTLD Program Committee [Published 9 May 2012] President | IPC "Digital Archery" Batching Method  
7 May 2012 Elise Gerich to Heather Dryden [Published 22 May 2012] Vice President, IANA and Technical Operations | ICANN Inquiry About ISO 3166 Two-Letter Codes Gerich to Cowley [Published 22 May 2012]
7 May 2012 Elise Gerich to Lesley Cowley [Published 22 May 2012] Vice President, IANA and Technical Operations | ICANN Inquiry About ISO 3166 Two-Letter Codes Gerich to Dryden [Published 22 May 2012]
7 May 2012 Daniel L. Jaffe to Rod Beckstrom [Published 7 May 2012] Group Executive Vice President, Government Relations | The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Defensive Registrations for New gTLDs
2 May 2012 Kurt Pritz to Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny [Published 21 May 2012] Senior Vice President, Stakeholder Relations | ICANN Re: Comments of the World Health Organization to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on the Top Level Domain Names for Health Kieny to Beckstrom, Crocker, and Pritz [Published 3 May 2012]
30 April 2012 Günther Platter to Stephen D. Crocker [Published 5 November 2012] Landeshauptmann | Tirol Unser Land New gTLD Program – Batching and the Public Interest: .TIROL Willett to Platter [Published 5 November 2012]
27 April 2012 GNSO Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) to the ICANN Board of Directors [Published 1 May 2012] GNSO Registries Stakeholder Group (RySG) Response to the Challenge of New TLDs on ICANN Structures and Operation  
25 April 2012 Robert D. Liodice to Rod Beckstrom [Published 26 April 2012] President and CEO | The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) Top Level Domain Application System  
19 April 2012 Chen Yin to Rod Beckstrom and Steve Crocker [Published 21 May 2012] Director General | China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology New gTLD Program Beckstrom to Yin [Published 21 May 2012]
18 April 2012 Dirk Krischenowski to New gTLD Program Committee [Published 21 May 2012] Founder and Managing Director | dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG New gTLD Batching  
12 April 2012 Heather Dryden to Steve Crocker and ICANN Board [Published 7 May 2012] Chair | Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) Protection of Intergovernmental Organisations Crocker and Beckstrom to Dryden and van Gelder [Published 11 March 2012]
12 April 2012 Karla Valente to Chuck Gomes [Published 12 April 2012] Director gTLD Registry Programs | ICANN Proposal #2012001, DNSSEC Implementation for .name  
12 April 2012 Karla Valente to Chuck Gomes [Published 12 April 2012] Director gTLD Registry Programs | ICANN Proposal #2012003 Verisign Redemption Grace Period for .name  
11 April 2012 Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny to Rod Beckstrom, Steve Crocker, and Kurt Pritz [Published 3 May 2012] Assistant Director-General | World Health Organization Comments of the World Health Organization to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on the Top Level Domain Names for Health Pritz to Kieny [Published 21 May 2012]
11 April 2012 New gTLD Customer Service to Beth Chapman [Published 11 April 2012] ICANN New gTLD Program Chapman to Beckstrom [Published 6 April 2012]
10 April 2012 Jim Gibbons to Kurt Pritz [Published 3 May 2012] President and CEO | Goodwill Industries International, Inc. Request for Exemption/Protection | Goodwill Industries International, Inc.  
9 April 2012 Karla Valente to Chuck Gomes [Published 9 April 2012] Director gTLD Registry Programs | ICANN Proposal #2012002, Bulk Transfer after Partial Portfolio Acquisition ("BTAPPA") for .name  
5 April 2012 New gTLD Customer Service to Jeffrey W. Bullock [Published 9 April 2012] ICANN New gTLD Program Bullock to ICANN [Published 6 April 2012]
30 March 2012 Beth Chapman to Rod Beckstrom [Published 6 April 2012] Alabama Secretary of State | National Association of Secretaries of State New gTLD Program New gTLD Customer Service to Chapman [Published 11 April 2012]
20 March 2012 Nick Wood and Caroline Perriard to Rod Beckstrom and Steve Crocker [Published 3 May 2012] Vice-Chair, MARQUES Cyberspace Team, and Council Member, MARQUES; and Chair, MARQUES CyberSpace Team | MARQUES – The Association of European Trade Mark Owners Recognising Co-Existence Agreements in the New gTLD Process: One Way of Reducing Defensive Registration at the Top Level  
20 March 2012 Jeffrey W. Bullock to ICANN [Published 6 April 2012] Secretary of State | Delaware Department of State New gTLD Program New gTLD Customer Service to Bullock [Published 9 April 2012]
13 March 2012 Thorbjørn Jagland to Rod Beckstrom [Published 13 March 2012] The Secretary General | Council of Europe Generic Top-Level Domains Program
11 March 2012 ICANN Board to the GNSO Registries Stakeholder Group [Published 11 March 2012] ICANN Re: Response to Inquiry on Outstanding Communications | Vertical Integration
11 March 2012 Rod Beckstrom to the Legal Counsel of Public International Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) [Published 11 March 2012] President and CEO | ICANN Response to Open Intergovernmental Organizations on the Expansion of Generic Top Level Domains IGO Counsels to Beckstrom et al. [Published 3 March 2012]
11 March 2012 Steve Crocker and Rod Beckstrom to Heather Dryden and Stephane van Gelder [Published 11 March 2012] Chairman of the ICANN Board of Directors; President and CEO | ICANN IGO Request Regarding Registration and Use of IGO Names in DNS Dryden to Crocker and ICANN Board [Published 7 May 2012]
9 March 2012 Rod Beckstrom to Mr. Gerard de Graaf and Ms. Linsey McCallum, European Commission [Published 9 March 2012] President and CEO | ICANN Cross Ownership Between Registries and Registrars
8 March 2012 Steve Crocker to Elham M.A. Ibrahim [Published 8 March 2012] Chairman of the ICANN Board of Directors | ICANN ICANN Activities in Africa | Response to African Union Communiqué of October 2011 African Union Communiqué [Published 10 March 2012]
5 March 2012 Carsten Brosda to Stephen D. Crocker [Published 5 November 2012] Senat der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg New gTLD Program – Batching and the Public Interest: .HAMBURG Willett to Brosda [Published 5 November 2012]
1 March 2012 Nii Quaynor et al. to the ICANN Board [Published 1 March 2012] Former ICANN Board Member, Ghana, et al. | Internet Community ICANN Activities in Africa  
1 March 2012 Akram Atallah to Andrea Enria [Published 1 March 2012] COO | ICANN Proposed New gTLDs .bank and .fin Enria to Clay [Published 20 February 2012]
27 February 2012 Marilyn Cade and Steve DelBianco to Steve Crocker and Rod Beckstrom [Published 18 May 2012] Chair, Business Constituency; Vice Chair for Policy, Business Constituency | The ICANN GNSO "Business Constituency" New gTLD Program  
20 February 2012 Andrea Enria to Barbara Clay [Published 20 February 2012] Chairperson | European Banking Authority (EBA) Proposed New gTLDs .bank and .fin Atallah to Enria [Published 1 March 2012]
14 February 2012 Andrea Enria to the Public Record [Published 14 February 2012] Chairperson | European Banking Authority (EBA) Proposed New gTLDs .bank and .fin  
8 February 2012 Jean-Louis Missika to Steve Crocker [Published 3 May 2012] Adjoint au Maire de Paris | Mairie de Paris Consideration of public interest in ICANN's "secondary time stamp" announcement  
2 February 2012 Rod Beckstrom to Hon. Amy Klobuchar and Hon. Kelly Ayotte, U.S. Senate [Published 2 February 2012] President and CEO | ICANN Letter Regarding the New gTLD Program Klobuchar and Ayotte to Beckstrom [Published 22 December 2011]
2 February 2012 Rod Beckstrom to Hon. Fred Upton, U.S. House of Representatives [Published 2 February 2012] President and CEO | ICANN Letter Regarding the New gTLD Program Upton et al. to Beckstrom and Crocker [Published 21 December 2011]
2 February 2012 Rod Beckstrom to Hon. Patrick Leahy, Hon. Charles E. Grassley, Hon.Lamar Smith, Hon. John Conyers, Jr., U.S. Congress [Published 2 February 2012] President and CEO | ICANN Letter Regarding the New gTLD Program Leahy to Beckstrom [Published 27 December 2011]
26 January 2012 GNSO Registries Stakeholder Group to the ICANN Board of Directors [Published 26 January 2012] GNSO Registries Stakeholder Group Response to Inquiry on Outstanding Communications | Vertical Integration
25 January 2012 Kurt Pritz to Hon. Barbara Boxer, Hon. Maria Cantwell, Hon. Claire McCaskill, Hon. Olympia Snowe and Hon. Mark Warner, U.S. Senate [Published 26 January 2012] Senior Vice President, Stakeholder Relations | ICANN ICANN's Expansion of Top Level Domain Names  
20 January 2012 Kurt Pritz to the Honorable Greg Walden, U.S. House of Representatives [Published 20 January 2012] Senior Vice President, Stakeholder Relations | ICANN Additional Questions from the December 14, 2011 Hearing Before the House Subcommittee on Communication and Technology, Committee on Energy and Commerce  
19 January 2012 Gerard de Graaf and Linsey McCallum to Rod Beckstrom and Steve Crocker [Published 19 January 2012] Director; and Acting Director | European Commission Response to Letter to Commissioner Kroes on Vertical Separation Between Registries and Registrars
11 January 2012 Rod Beckstrom to Assistant Secretary Lawrence E. Strickling [Published 11 January 2012] President and CEO | ICANN New gTLDs
10 January 2012 Rod Beckstrom to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz and Commissioners Rosch, Ramirez and Brill [Published 10 January 2012] President and CEO | ICANN Re: ICANN's New gTLD Program FTC to Beckstrom [Published 16 December 2011]
9 January 2012 Robert Liodice to ICANN and Members of the ICANN Board [Published 9 January 2012] The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) New gTLD Program  
6 January 2012 Colin Campbell to Steve Crocker [Published 3 May 2012] CEO and Chairman | .CLUB Domains, LLC New gTLD Program  
6 January 2012 Christopher Ambler, et al. to Steve Crocker [Published 3 May 2012] Founder/CTO, Image Online Design/.Web Internet Domain Registry | 26 Private Sector Supporters of New gTLD program New gTLD Program  
4 January 2012 IGO Counsel to Rod Beckstrom, Steve Crocker and Kurt Pritz [Published 4 January 2012] Legal Counsels of the Public International Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO) Protection Against the Misleading Use of the Names and Acronyms of International Intergovernmental Organizations in the Domain Name System  
3 January 2012 Lawrence Strickling to Steve Crocker [Published 3 January 2012] The Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information | United States Department of Commerce New gTLD Program
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."