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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.

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Contracted Party (CP) Date Email
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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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."