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Instructions for Payments to ICANN

ICANN accepts payments by wire transfer, ACH, money order, check or credit card.

  • To make a wire or ACH payment, please contact [email protected].

  • To make a credit card payment, please note:

    ICANN will accept Visa, MasterCard/Maestro, American Express and Discover credit cards as forms of payment.

    Effective for all invoices issued on or after 01 October 2026 and paid on or after 1 November 2026, a 3% payment processing fee will be applied to all credit card transactions.

    This fee will not apply to:

    • Debit cards
    • Prepaid cards
    • Payments made via bank transfer (e.g., ACH, Wire)

    Fill out and sign the Credit Card Payment Form [PDF, 266 KB].

    Fax it to us at: +1.310.857.2737

    Or you may mail the form to:

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
    ATTN: Finance Department
    12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300
    Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536
    USA

  • To make a payment by check or money order, please mail to:

    Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
    ATTN: Finance Department
    12025 Waterfront Drive, Suite 300
    Los Angeles, CA 90094-2536
    USA

Please email payment details to [email protected] notifying us that a payment has been made and listing all invoices included in the amount remitted.

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."