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2021 Contracted Party Communications

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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
Registrars 20JAN21 Notice of Extension of the 2013 RAA Specification on Privacy and Proxy Registrations
Contracted Party (CP) Date Email
All Contracted Parties 22DEC21 2021 Year-End Reminders from ICANN
Registry Operators 20DEC21 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming maintenance windows
Registry Operators 16DEC21 Universal Acceptance Readiness Survey for Registry Operators and Registry Service Providers
Registrars 16DEC21 Universal Acceptance Readiness Survey for Registrars
All Contracted Parties 15DEC21 ICANN's Response to Widespread Vulnerability with Apache Servers
All Contracted Parties 30NOV21 2021 ICANN Holiday Closure
Registrars 29NOV21 Universal Acceptance Readiness Survey for Registrars
Registry Operators 22NOV21 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming maintenance windows
All Contracted Parties 22NOV21 Notice to RRI Users - Upcoming maintenance window
Registry Operators 20NOV21 Universal Acceptance Readiness Survey for Registry Operators and Registry Service Providers
Registry Operators 09NOV21 Monthly Account Statement - New Process & Updated Format Attachment: 1
Registrars 09NOV21 Monthly Account Statement - New Process & Updated Format Attachment: 1
All Contracted Parties 01NOV21 ICANN needs your feedback
Registrars 19OCT21 ICANN Registrar Fee Approved (FY22) Attachment: 1
Registrars 28SEP21 ICANN Billing Improvements for the Naming Services portal and Payment Notifications Attachments: 1 , 2
Registry Operators 28SEP21 ICANN Billing Improvements for the Naming Services portal and Payment Notifications Attachments: 1 , 2
All Contracted Parties 22SEP21 Scheduled NSp Window 28 September 2021
Registry Operators 14SEP21 Naming Services Portal update to include TLS Client Authentication Data
Registrars 13SEP21 ICANN Registrar Fee Approval Request (FY22)
Registry Operators 10SEP21 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming maintenance windows
Registry Operators 24AUG21 Notice to RRI Users - TLS update
Registry Operators 19AUG21 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming MoSAPI release
Registrars 16AUG21 Security Response Waiver (SRW) service launch
Registry Operators 13AUG21 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming maintenance windows
Registry Operators 06AUG21 Notice to MoSAPI Users - TLS update
All Contracted Parties 02AUG21 Your Input is Needed: SSAD Questionnaire
Registry Operators 23JUL21 Notice to MoSAPI/RRI Users - Upcoming TLS updates
All Contracted Parties 08JUL21 Registrar and Registry Input Needed: SSAD Questionnaire
All Contracted Parties 07JUL21 Updated Registration Data Access Protocol RFC: 9082 and 9083
Registrars 22JUN21 RDAP base URL validation feature in NSp
Registry Operators 09JUN21 IDN Table Updates: New IDN Service in NSp
Registrars 08JUN21 ICANN Seeks Gaining Registrar for Bulk Transfer Attachments: 1
Registry Operators 26MAY21 Registry System Testing Updates
Registry Operators 25MAY21 IDN Table Updates: IDN Review Tool Session Recording
Registry Operators 21MAY21 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming maintenance windows
Registry Operators 10MAY21 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming maintenance windows
Registry Operators 28APR21 Net 4 India: ICANN Initiated Expression of Interest to Registrars
Registrars 28APR21 ICANN Seeks Gaining Registrar for Bulk Transfer Attachments: 1
Registry Operators 22APR21 IDN Table Updates: IDN Review Tool
Registrars 21APR21 Iron Mountain Developing Integration to Registration Reporting Interfaces (RRI)
Registry Operators 20APR21 IDN Table Updates: Clarifying and updating review process
Registry Operators 14APR21 Notification of change in IP addresses of SLA monitoring system probe nodes
All Contracted Parties 01APR21 Please Join ICANN for a Contracted Party Roundtable Discussion
Registry Operators 01APR21 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming maintenance window
Registry Operator 31MAR21 Notification of upcoming change in IP addresses of SLA monitoring system probe nodes
All Contracted Parties 11MAR21 UPCOMING MAINTENANCE - Naming Services portal and RRI
Registry Operators 08MAR21 Notice to MoSAPI Users - Upcoming maintenance window
Registry Operators 05MAR21 Net 4 India Limited; Do Not Delete Domain Request
Registry Operators 03MAR21 Recorded Demo of New ICANN.org Webpages
Registry Operators 02FEB21 Notice to MoSAPI/RRI Users - Upcoming TLS updates
Registry Operators 21JAN21 Notice to MoSAPI/RRI Users - Upcoming maintenance window
Registry Operators 11JAN21 Notice to MoSAPI/RRI Users - Upcoming TLS updates
Registry Operators 04JAN21 Annual Certifications Due to ICANN by 20 January 2021

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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."