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RDRS Usage Metrics Reports

2025 Reporting Periods

  • December 2025 (Reporting period: 1 November – 30 November 2025) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV 18] [CSV 19]
  • November 2025 (Reporting period: 1 October – 31 October 2025) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV 18] [CSV 19]
  • October 2025 (Reporting period: 1 September – 30 September 2025) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV 18] [CSV 19]
  • September 2025 (Reporting period: 1 August – 31 August 2025) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV 18] [CSV 19]
  • August 2025 (Reporting period: 1 July – 31 July 2025) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV 18] [CSV 19]
  • July 2025 (Reporting period: 1 June – 30 June 2025) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV 18] [CSV 19]
  • June 2025 (Reporting period: 1 May – 31 May 2025) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV 18] [CSV 19]
  • May 2025 (Reporting period: 1 April – 30 April 2025) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV 18] [CSV 19]
  • April 2025 (Reporting period: 1 March – 31 March 2025) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV 18] [CSV 19]
  • March 2025 (Reporting period: 1 February – 28 February 2025) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV 18] [CSV 19]
  • February 2025 (Reporting period: 1 January – 31 January 2025) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV 18] [CSV 19]

2024 Reporting Periods

  • January 2025 (Reporting period: 1 December – 31 December 2024) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV 18] [CSV 19]
  • December 2024 (Reporting period: 1 November – 30 November 2024) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV 18] [CSV 19]
  • November 2024 (Reporting period: 1 October – 31 October 2024) [PDF] [CSV] [CSV18] [CSV 19]
  • October 2024 (Reporting period: 1 September – 30 September 2024) [PDF] [CSV]
  • September 2024 (Reporting period: 1 August – 31 August 2024) [PDF] [CSV]
  • August 2024 (Reporting period: 1 July – 31 July 2024) [PDF] [CSV]
  • July 2024 (Reporting period: 1 June – 30 June 2024) [PDF] [CSV]
  • June 2024 (Reporting period: 1 May – 31 May 2024) [PDF] [CSV]
  • May 2024 (Reporting period: 1 April – 30 April 2024) Updated [PDF] [CSV]
  • April 2024 (Reporting period: 1 March – 31 March 2024) Updated [PDF] [CSV]
  • March 2024 (Reporting period: 1 February – 29 February 2024) [PDF] [CSV]
  • February 2024 (Reporting period: 1 January – 31 January 2024) [PDF] [CSV]
  • January 2024 (Reporting period: 28 November – 31 December 2023) [PDF] [CSV]

RDRS Survey Reports and User Experience Reports

  • January thru August 2025 Survey Report (Reporting period 1 January 2025 – 31 August 2025) [PDF]
  • 4th Quarter 2024 Survey Report (Reporting period 1 October 2024 - 31 December 2024) [PDF]
  • ICANN81 User Experience Interviews Report (November 2024) [PDF]
  • 3rd Quarter 2024 Survey Report (Reporting period 1 July 2024 - 30 September 2024) [PDF]
  • 2nd Quarter 2024 Survey Report (Reporting period 1 April 2024 - 30 June 2024) [PDF]
  • 1st Quarter 2024 Survey Report (Reporting period 28 November 2023 - 31 March 2024) Updated [PDF]

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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."