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11 Dec 2018

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NextGen@ICANN Application Round for ICANN65 Is Now Open

11 Dec 2018

ICANN Reviews

Update on Next Steps on Reviews

11 Dec 2018

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Deadline Extended: ccNSO Review Survey Available for Community Input

Los Angeles – 19 December 2018 – The deadline to take the Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Review survey has been extended until Friday 11 January 2019 at 23:59 UTC. Click here to take the survey now. Community input...

19 Dec 2018

Proposed Changes to The Registrar Stakeholder Group (RrSG) Charter

Open Date: 18 December 2018 Close Date: 5 February 2019 Originating Organization: ICANN Board of Directors, GNSO, RrSG Categories/Tags: Bylaws, Engagement/Participation ...

18 Dec 2018  |  DNS Marketplace, Public Comment

Updated Operating Standards for Specific Reviews

Open Date: 17 December 2018 Close Date: 11 February 2019 Originating Organization: Multistakeholder Strategy and Strategic Initiatives (MSSI) Categories/Tags: Reviews/Improvements,...

17 Dec 2018

ICANN Draft FY20 Operating Plan and Budget and Five-Year Operating Plan Update

Open Date: 17 December 2018 Close Date: 08 February 2019 Originating Organization: ICANN Organization Categories/Tags: Operations/Finance Brief Overview: Focusing on ICANN's commitment to the...

17 Dec 2018  |  Technology, Announcement

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SSAC Chair Rod Rasmussen on IDN Homographic Attacks

In an interview with ICANN’s Andrew McConachie, Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) Chair Rod Rasmussen discusses the use of Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) homographic attacks....

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Interview with the NomCom

ICANN’s James Cole sits down with members of the 2019 Nominating Committee (NomCom) - Damon Ashcroft, Zahid Jamil, and Cheryl Miller - to talk about the role of the NomCom, the Board positions that...

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GNSO Review Implementation: Community Experience

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Chair’s Blog: Key Take-Aways from the Board’s 360° Evaluation

Draft FY20 Operating Plan and Budget Now Available for Your Feedback

Remote Participation at ICANN Meetings

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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."