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For contractual reasons, Monthly Registry Reports are withheld until three months after the end of the month to which the report relates.

The Registry Monthly Reporting Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) provides answers to commonly asked questions regarding the Registry Monthly Reporting processes for all registry operators. The document is useful for both technical and non-technical audiences.

Coming Soon: ICANN org will make Registry Reports available on ICANN Open Data in beta. This beta period will give the ICANN community time to adjust and test the new functionality. During this beta period, Registry Reports will continue to be available here on https://icann.org. ICANN org will use this beta period to work with the community if any issues are found.

ICANN org will provide advance notice before Registry Reports are permanently moved to ICANN Open Data. For more information about the Open Data API, please visit ICANN Open Data or the Open Data Soft Help page.

Watch this page for the launch of the beta period.

Please continue to access registry reports on https://icann.org as the definitive and most up-to-date source for activity and transaction reports.


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."