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Press Release: Tripti Sinha Re-Appointed Chair and Chris Chapman Appointed Vice Chair of ICANN Board of Directors

ISTANBUL - 14 November 2024

ICANN and Smart Africa Collaborate to Boost Internet Governance Across Africa

ISTANBUL – 13 November 2024

Press Release: Türkiye Internet Measurement Day Fostering Collaboration for a Stronger, More Resilient Internet

Istanbul, 8 November 2024

Press Release: ICANN81 in Istanbul to Address Future of Global Internet Governance

ISTANBUL – 30 October 2024

Press Release: Registration Open for ICANN DNS Symposium and LAC Domain Names Week

Montevideo, Uruguay – 17 July 2024

Press Release: ICANN Selects Next President and CEO

LOS ANGELES – 10 June 2024

Press Release: ICANN80 and High-Level Government Meeting to Convene in Kigali, Rwanda

Istanbul – 29 May 2024

Press Release: ICANN DNS Forum: Internet Experts to Gather in Bali to Strengthen International Collaboration

Jakarta, INDONESIA – 17 May 2024

Press Release: ICANN Opens Application Cycle for Global Grant Program

LOS ANGELES – 26 March 2024

Press Release: Registration Open for ICANN79 Community Forum

LOS ANGELES – 27 February 2024

Press Release: UA Day 2024: Driving a Multilingual Internet through Universal Acceptance

LOS ANGELES – 31 January 2024

Press Release: ICANN Announces Grant Program to Spur Innovation

LOS ANGELES – 9 January 2024

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."