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CEO Reports to the Board


CEO Report to the Board   [09 Dec 2022— 17 Mar 2023]   PDF 1.59 MB

CEO Report to the Board   [08 Aug 2022— 08 Dec 2022]   PDF 2.71 MB

CEO Report to the Board   [14 Mar 2022— 05 Aug 2022]   PDF 2.76 MB

CEO Report to the Board   [13 Nov 2021— 11 Mar 2022]   PDF 2.19 MB

CEO Report to the Board   [02 Aug 2021— 12 Nov 2021]   PDF 2.27 MB

CEO Report to the Board   [01 Apr 2021— 30 Jul 2021]   PDF 1.86 MB

CEO Report to the Board   [21 Dec 2020— 31 Mar 2021]   PDF 1.46 MB

CEO Report to the Board   [08 Sep 2020— 18 Dec 2020]   PDF 1.51 MB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [30 Mar 2020— 04 Sep 2020]   PDF 1.85 MB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [03 Dec 2019— 27 Mar 2020]   PDF 3.35 MB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [03 Aug 2019— 29 Nov 2019]   PDF 2.89 MB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [01 Apr 2019— 02 Aug 2019]   PDF 2.88 MB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [17 Dec 2018— 29 Mar 2019]   PDF 2.89 MB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [16 Aug 2018— 17 Dec 2018]   PDF 2.34 MB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [13 Apr 2018— 15 Aug 2018]   PDF 2.38 MB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [05 Jan 2018— 12 Apr 2018]   PDF 1.29 MB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [28 Aug 2017— 04 Jan 2018]   PDF 2.67 MB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [30 May 2017— 28 Aug 2017]   PDF 3.46 MB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [11 Apr 2017— 30 May 2017]   PDF 2.61 MB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [25 Feb 2017— 11 Apr 2017]   PDF 1.9 MB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [07 Jan 2017— 24 Feb 2017]   PDF 695 KB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [07 Oct 2016— 06 Jan 2017]   PDF 506 KB

ICANN Org Report to the Board   [01 Sep 2016— 06 Oct 2016]   PDF 1.17 MB

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."