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ICANN Publishes FY21 Q2 Unaudited Financial Results

LOS ANGELES – 15 February 2021 – On 10 February 2021, the Internet Corporation for Assigned...

 |  DNS Marketplace, Financials

EPDP Phase 2 Policy Recommendations for Board Consideration

Open Date: 8 February 2021 Close Date: 30 March 2021
Originating Organization: ICANN org
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 |  DNS Marketplace, Public Comment

ICANN Issues Third Breach Notice to Net 4 India Limited; Continues to Take Steps to Protect Registrants

LOS ANGELES – 29 January 2021 – To protect the rights and interests of domain name registrants,...

 |  Announcement, Civil Society, Compliance, DNS Marketplace, Registrars

ICANN Org Launches Audit of Registrar Compliance with DNS Security Threat Obligations

LOS ANGELES – 15 January 2021 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

 |  Announcement, DNS Marketplace

Additional Second-Level Reference Label Generation Rules (LGRs) Published

LOS ANGELES – 13 January 2021 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

 |  Announcement, Civil Society, DNS Marketplace, IDN

ICANN and APTLD Join Efforts to Promote Universal Acceptance in the APAC Region

LOS ANGELES – 6 January 2021 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN),...

 |  Announcement, ccTLD, Civil Society, DNS Marketplace, Government, IDN, Technology

The Fifth Eastern European DNS Forum Goes Virtual

Brussels – 27 October 2020 – The fifth Eastern European Domain Name System Forum (EEDNSF) will...

 |  Announcement, Civil Society, DNS Marketplace, Government, Technology

IANA Naming Function Review Team Community Webinar

LOS ANGELES – 21 September 2020 – Today, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Naming...

 |  Announcement, ccTLD, Civil Society, DNS Marketplace, Registries, Technology

Baher Esmat Appointed Managing Director for the Middle East and Africa (MEA) Regional Office

ISTANBUL – 17 AUGUST 2020 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

 |  Announcement, DNS Marketplace

Webinar Invitation: Third Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT3) Final Report

LOS ANGELES – 29 June 2020 – The third Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT3)...

 |  Announcement, DNS Marketplace

Domain Name Marketplace Indicators Published on the Open Data Platform

LOS ANGELES – 17 June 2020 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

 |  Announcement, DNS Marketplace

ICANN67 Public Forum: Time Allocated for Community Discussion on Proposed Transfer of Ownership of Public Interest Registry

LOS ANGELES – 4 March 2020 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

 |  Announcement, DNS Marketplace

Public Comment Period Extended: Second Security, Stability, and Resiliency (SSR2) Review Team Draft Report

Los Angeles – 3 March 2020 – The deadline to submit comments on the Second Security, Stability,...

 |  Announcement, Civil Society, Developing World, DNS Marketplace, Government, Security, SSR, Technology

Proposal for Chinese Script Root Zone‬ Label Generation Rules

Open Date: 28 February 2020 Close Date: 20 April 2020
Originating Organization: Global...

 |  Civil Society, DNS Marketplace, Public Comment

Upcoming Middle East DNS Forum Postponed

ISTANBUL – 27 February 2020 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

 |  Announcement, Civil Society, Developing World, DNS Marketplace, Government, Technology

ICANN Announces NextGen@ICANN68 Participants

LOS ANGELES – 24 February 2020 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

 |  Announcement, Civil Society, Developing World, DNS Marketplace, Government, Technology

ICANN Launches Dr. Tarek Kamel Award and Opens Nomination for ICANN Community Excellence Award

LOS ANGELES - 27 January 2020 – Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers...

 |  Announcement, Civil Society, Developing World, DNS Marketplace, Government, Technology

Register Now to Participate in the 7th Middle East DNS Forum

Register Now to Participate in the 7th Middle East DNS Forum

ISTANBUL – 27 January 2020 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

 |  Announcement, Civil Society, Developing World, DNS Marketplace, Government, Technology

Third Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT3): Webinar on Draft Report

Third Accountability and Transparency Review Team (ATRT3): Webinar on Draft Report

LOS...

 |  Accountability, Civil Society, Developing World, DNS Marketplace, Government, Technology

Proposed Amendment 3 to the .COM Registry Agreement

Open Date: 3 January 2020 Close Date: 14 February 2020
Originating Organization: Global...

 |  Announcement, DNS Marketplace

Proposed Final Report of the New gTLD Auction Proceeds Cross Community Working Group

Open Date: 23 December 2019 Close Date: 14 February 2020
Originating Organization: New gTLD...

 |  Civil Society, Developing World, DNS Marketplace, Government, gTLD, New gTLDs, Technology

Request for Proposal: IMRS Cluster (Singapore) Network Connectivity

LOS ANGELES – 23 December 2019 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

 |  Announcement, Civil Society, Developing World, DNS Marketplace, Government, Technology

Request for Proposal: IMRS Cluster (Singapore) Co-Location

LOS ANGELES – 23 December 2019 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

 |  Announcement, Civil Society, Developing World, DNS Marketplace, Government, Technology

Request for Quotation: Network Equipment Refresh 2020

LOS ANGELES – 23 December 2019 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

 |  Announcement, Civil Society, Developing World, DNS Marketplace, Government, Technology

Request for Quotation: Server Equipment Refresh 2020

LOS ANGELES – 23 December 2019 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)...

 |  Announcement, Civil Society, Developing World, DNS Marketplace, Government, Technology

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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."