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ICANN Correspondence

This page provides a centralized location to publish letters received by ICANN from external sources and track outgoing letters. As part of our commitment to transparency, ICANN publishes applicable written communication to this public Correspondence page. Additional correspondence pages:

A workflow document and handbook were created to provide more transparency into the Correspondence Process, as part of the Process Documentation Initiative in 2017.

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Date Correspondence Sender Affiliation Issue Related Correspondence
2 Mar 2026 Susan Payne to Tripti Sinha [Published 2 Mar 2026] Chair | Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council System for Standardized Access/Disclosure (SSAD) Recommendations
27 Feb 2026 Craig Schwartz to Tripti Sinha [Published 4 Mar 2026] President | fTLD Registry Services | .Bank & .Insurance Non-standard TLD Assignment: Registry Compliance and Safeguarding Registrants
27 Feb 2026 Tripti Sinha and Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Nicolas Caballero [Published 2 Mar 2026]

Chair | ICANN Board of Directors

President and Chief Executive Officer | ICANN

 Protections for Names and Acronyms of Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) in gTLDS 12 Dec 2025: Nicolas Caballero to Tripti Sinha and Kurtis Lindqvist
23 Feb 2026 Tripti Sinha to Brad Verd [Published 24 Feb 2026] Chair | ICANN Board of Directors Root Server System Governance Working Group Final Report and Deliverables 20 Feb 2026: Brad Verd to Tripti Sinha, Roman Danyliw, and Jeff Osborn
20 Feb 2026 Brad Verd to Tripti Sinha, Roman Danyliw, and Jeff Osborn [Published 24 Feb 2026] Chair | Root Server System Governance Working Group (GWG) Root Server System Governance Working Group Final Report and Deliverables 23 Feb 2026: Tripti Sinha to Brad Verd
17 Feb 2026 Tripti Sinha to Hadia Elminiawi [Published 18 Feb 2026] Chair | ICANN Board of Directors Joint ICANN83 AFRALO-AFRICANN statement on Africa's DNS Abuse Mitigation Initiative: Empowering Stakeholders Across Ecosystems 19 Sept 2025: Hadia Elminiawi to Tripti Sinha
17 Feb 2026 Susan Payne to Tripti Sinha [Published 18 Feb 2026] Chair | Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council ICANN Board Liaison to the GNSO DNS Abuse Mitigation Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group (WG)
9 Feb 2026 Tripti Sinha to Rafik Dammak [Published 10 Feb 2026] Chair | ICANN Board of Directors Law-Enforcement Authentication and Registrant Rights 1 Dec 2025: Rafik Dammak to the ICANN Board
6 Feb 2026 Hadia Elminiawi to Tripti Sinha (Published 11 Feb 2026) Chair | ICANN Board of Directors Joint ICANN 84 AFRALO-AFRICANN statement on "Bridging the Digital Divide & Internet Fragmentation Risks"
3 Feb 2026 Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Thomas Rickert [Published 4 Feb 2026] President and Chief Executive Officer | ICANN Request to Adjust Initial RSP Publication Timeline to Prevent Competitive Disadvantages 26 Jan 2026: Thomas Rickert to Kurt Erik Lindqvist
30 Jan 2026 Marika Konings to Nacho Amadoz [Published 2 Feb 2026] VP, New gTLD Program Lead | ICANN New gTLD Program: 2026 Round Applicant Guidebook - Geographic Names Review conditional fee 13 Jan 2026: Nacho Amadoz to Marika Konings
26 Jan 2026 Thomas Rickert to Kurt Erik Lindqvist [Published 4 Feb 2026] Director Names & Numbers, Members of the Names & Numbers Forum Working Group | eco - Association of the Internet Industry Request to Adjust Initial RSP Publication Timeline to Prevent Competitive Disadvantages 3 Feb 2026: Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Thomas Rickert
13 Jan 2026 Nacho Amadoz to Marika Konings [Published 2 Feb 2026] Chair GeoTLD Group New gTLD Program: 2026 Round Applicant Guidebook - Geographic Names Review conditional fee 30 Jan 2026: Marika Konings to Nacho Amadoz
7 Jan 2026 Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Jeffrey Neuman [Published 8 Jan 2026] President and Chief Executive Officer | ICANN Open Letter to ICANN: If the Public Forum Matters, the Responses Must Matter Too 3 Dec 2025: Jeffrey Neuman to ICANN Org
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."