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Email communications from the Global Domains Division (GDD) to the ICANN organization's contracted parties for the current year can be found below.

Please note: Weekly registrar announcements are not included in the list below. Legal notices listed below are intended to inform contracted parties of specific policies and contractual obligations.

Additional information for contracted parties can be found in the News and Media section of icann.org at https://www.icann.org/news/blog.

Contracted Party (CP) Date Legal Notice
All Contracted Parties 18FEB20 Notice of Policy Implementation for Red Cross & Red Crescent Reserved Names Update

 

Contracted Party (CP) Date Email
All Contracted Parties 22DEC20 2020 Year-End Reminders from ICANN
Registrars 17DEC20 ICANN seeks gaining registrar for bulk transfer Attachments: 1
Registry Operators 14DEC20 Notification of upcoming change in IP addresses of SLA monitoring system probe nodes
Registry Operators 11DEC20 Notice to MoSAPI/RRI Users - Upcoming maintenance window
All Contracted Parties 09DEC20 Change in Naming Service portal emails
Registry Operators 30NOV20 Notification of upcoming change in IP addresses of SLA monitoring system probe nodes
All Contracted Parties 30NOV20 2020 ICANN Holiday Closure
Registry Operators 24NOV20 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming maintenance window
Registry Operators 09NOV20 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming maintenance window
Registrars 22OCT20 ICANN Registrar Fee Approved (FY21) Attachment: 1
Registry Operators 20OCT20 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming maintenance window
Registry Operators 29SEP20 Notification of upcoming change in IP addresses of SLA monitoring system probe nodes
Registry Operators 15SEP20 Notification of upcoming change in IP addresses of SLA monitoring system probe nodes
Registrars 14SEP20 ICANN Registrar Fee Approval Request (FY21)
Registry Operators 09SEP20 Update on Releasing Continued Operations Instrument (COI) Obligations
Registry Operators 01SEP20 Notice to MoSAPI/RRI Users - Upcoming TLS updates
All Contracted Parties 31AUG20 ICANN Naming Services portal Compliance Solution Now Available
All Contracted Parties 24AUG20 ICANN Naming Services portal Compliance Solution - What to expect on 28 August 2020
Registry Operators 21AUG20 Notification of upcoming change in IP addresses of SLA monitoring system probe nodes
Registry Operators 21AUG20 IDN Table Updates: Completing the IANA Repository
Registry Operators 19AUG20 Notice to MoSAPI/RRI Users - Upcoming maintenance window
Registrars 17AUG20 Compliance Contact in Naming Service portal
Contracted Parties 10AUG20 New go live date for Naming Service portal Contractual Compliance Solution
Registry Operators 07AUG20 Notification of upcoming change in IP addresses of SLA monitoring system probe nodes
Registrars 29JUL20 Compliance Contact in Naming Service portal
Registry Operators 20JUL20 Notice to RRI Users – Upcoming RRI maintenance window
Registry Operators 20JUL20 Notice to MoSAPI Users – Upcoming MoSAPI Maintenance
All Contracted Parties 14JUL20 Upcoming Naming Service portal Contractual Compliance Solution
Registry Operators 29JUN20 Notice to MoSAPI/RRI Users – Upcoming MoSAPI/RRI updates
Registry Operators 23JUN20 CZDS: Issues and Resolutions
All Contracted Parties 12JUN20 CSC Findings on PTI Performance April 2020
All Contracted Parties 09JUN20 Registries and Registrars Stakeholder Groups Webinar - COVID Registration Spike and Abuse - and ICANN68 Prep Sessions
All Contracted Parties 02JUN20 2020 Contracted Parties Satisfaction Survey Results
Registry Operators 19MAY20 Notice to MoSAPI Users – Upcoming MoSAPI Maintenance
Registry Operators 08MAY20 Notice to MoSAPI/RRI Users – Upcoming MoSAPI/RRI maintenance window
Registry Operators 28APR20 Notice to MoSAPI/RRI Users – Upcoming MoSAPI/RRI maintenance window
Registry Operators 16APR20 IDN Table Reviews During RSEP and MSA Service Requests
Registry Operators 13APR20 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Notifications of Maintenance
All Contracted Parties 08APR20 Assisting Registrants Affected by COVID-19
All Contracted Parties 07APR20 Keeping the DNS Secure During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Registry Operators 26MAR20 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Notifications of Outages and Maintenance
All Contracted Parties 24MAR20 THANK YOU: 2020 Contracted Parties Satisfaction Survey
All Contracted Parties 24MAR20 CSC Findings on PTI Performance February 2020
Registry Operators 23MAR20 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming MoSAPI Maintenance
All Contracted Parties 18MAR20 Cancellation: 2020 GDD Industry Summit in Paris, France
All Contracted Parties 10MAR20 CSC Findings on PTI Performance January 2020 Attachments: 1
Registry Operators 02MAR20 Notice to MoSAPI/RRI Users - Upcoming MoSAPI/RRI updates
Registry Operators 27FEB20 SHA-1 use in DNSSEC
Registrars 27FEB20 SHA-1 use in DNSSEC
All Contracted Parties 20FEB20 Contracted Parties Briefing for ICANN67
Registry Operators 12FEB20 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming MoSAPI Maintenance
All Contracted Parties 11FEB20 INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE: 2020 Contracted Parties Satisfaction Survey
Registry Operators 03FEB20 Notice to Registry Operators - Upcoming Bulk Registration Data validations
All Contracted Parties 29JAN20 Register Now for the 2020 GDD Industry Summit
All Contracted Parties 23JAN20 CSC Findings on PTI Performance December 2019 Attachments(s): 1
North American Contracted Parties 14JAN20 Meet with ICANN at NamesCon Global 2020
All Contracted Parties 15JAN20 Monthly Registry Reports to be made available in Open Data Platform
Registry Operators 06JAN20 Annual Certifications Due to the ICANN org by 20 January 2020

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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."