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ICANN59 Fellowship Application Round Now Open

23 Dec 2016

56 Individuals from 41 countries to join us at ICANN58

Successful Candidates Announced for ICANN58 Fellowship

23 Dec 2016

Post-ICANN57 Policy Report

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ICANN59 Fellowship Application Round Now Open

ICANN launches the application round for ICANN59. This round is open only for Fellowship Program Alumni, those who have previously completed an ICANN Fellowship, as it is a Community Policy Forum The meeting takes place from 26-29 June 2017 in...

23 Dec 2016  |  Civil Society, Technology

Proposed Renewal of .MOBI Sponsored Registry Agreement

Open Date: 23 December 2016 Close Date: 1 February 2017 Originating Organization: Global Domains Division Categories/Tags: Contracted Party Agreements Brief Overview: ICANN is posting for public...

23 Dec 2016  |  gTLD, DNS Marketplace, Technology

Puerto Rico and Barcelona Identified as ICANN Meeting Sites for 2018

The ICANN Board has approved San Juan, Puerto Rico as the location in North America to host ICANN's 61st public meeting to be held 10-15 March 2018. Barcelona, Spain has been selected as the European city to host ICANN63 | Annual General Meeting...

22 Dec 2016  |  Civil Society, Developing World, Technology

ICANN Publishes Updated Staff Report on Proposed Amendments to Base New gTLD Registry Agreement

LOS ANGELES – 22 December 2016 – ICANN today published a revised Staff Report of Public Comment Proceeding regarding Proposed Amendments to Base New gTLD Registry Agreement. Read the Reissued Report [PDF, 544 KB]. The reissued report supplements...

22 Dec 2016  |  New gTLD

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Participación LAC en ICANN57

Conozca más acerca del Programa de becas: https://www.icann.org/fellowshipprogram Conozca más sobre la GNSO: http://gnso.icann.org/en/ Conozca más sobre At-Large:...

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LAC participation at ICANN57

Learn more about the Fellowship Program: https://www.icann.org/fellowshipprogram Learn more about the GNSO: http://gnso.icann.org/en/ Learn more about At-Large: https://atlarge.icann.org/ Meet...

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ICANN’s CTO David Conrad Talks About Changing The Master Key Of The DNS

ICANN’s Brad White speaks with David Conrad, ICANN's Chief Technology Officer, about the first root zone key signing key rollover at ICANN57.

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Watch The Wrap - Up Interview With Stephen Crocker And Göran Marby At ICANN57

ICANN's Liana Teo speaks with Board Chair Stephen Crocker and President and CEO Göran Marby about ICANN57.

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Update on ICANN Transparency Reporting

Draft Report of the Competition, Consumer Trust and Consumer Choice Review Available in January

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Cybersecurity Topics on a Whirlwind Tour of Eastern Europe: Take 2

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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."