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Standardized Form of Authorization | Domain Name Transfer - Confirmation of Registrar Transfer Request

On 21 February 2024, an updated version of the form was published to reflect changes required to implement the Registration Data Policy. Click here to view the updated version of this form. You may view the changes in the redline.

An English version of this message is contained below.

<Insert translation of English version in preferred language of the registrant if known>

ENGLISH VERSION

DOMAIN NAME TRANSFER

Attention: <insert Registered Name Holder or Administrative Contact of Record as listed in the WHOIS>

Re: Transfer of <insert domain name or list of domain names>

<insert name of registrar and/or name of reseller> received notification on <insert date of notification> that you have requested/pre-approved a transfer to another domain name registrar. If you want to proceed with this transfer, you do not need to respond to this message. If you wish to cancel the transfer, please contact us before <insert date> by:

[NOTE: a registrar may choose to include one or more of the following in the message sent to the Registered Name Holder or Admin contact, and additional processes may be added with ICANN approval. The order in which options are presented is a decision for each registrar]

[optional] send an email to <insert contact details>

[optional] send a fax to <insert contact details>

[optional] or please go to our website <insert URL of confirmation webpage>

[Note: website to contain text as above, with the option to accept or deny the transfer.]

If we do not hear from you by <insert date>, the transfer will proceed.

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."