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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:
- Empowered Community correspondence
- Data Protection/Privacy correspondence
- Government and IGO Engagement correspondence
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Jul 2025 | Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha [Published 14 Jul 2025] | Chair | Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council | GNSO Council Review of ICANN83 Prague GAC Communiqué | 16 Jun 2025: ICANN83 Prague GAC Communiqué |
| 3 Jul 2025 | Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Gowtamsingh Dabee [Published 3 Jul 2025] | President and Chief Executive Officer | ICANN | Concerning Allegations Regarding AFRINIC's Board of Directors' Election |
26 Jun 2025: Gowtamsingh Dabee to Kurt Erik Lindqvist [confidential per sender's request] |
| 25 Jun 2025 | Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Gowtamsingh Dabee [Published 25 Jun 2025] | President and Chief Executive Officer | ICANN | Concerning Allegations Regarding AFRINIC's Board of Directors' Election |
3 Jul 2025: Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Gowtamsingh Dabee 26 Jun 2025: Gowtamsingh Dabee to Kurt Erik Lindqvist [confidential per sender's request] |
| 23 Jun 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Nico Caballero [Published 24 Jun 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | ICANN83 Prague GAC Communiqué | 16 Jun 2025: ICANN83 Prague GAC Communiqué |
| 18 Jun 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Greg DiBiase [Published 19 Jun 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | ICANN Board Liaison to the GNSO Latin Script Diacritics Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group (WG) | 19 Feb 2025: Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha |
| 15 Jun 2025 | Amrita Choudhury to Tripti Sinha and Kurt Erik Lindqvist [Published 23 Jun 2025] | Chair | Asian, Australasian and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization (APRALO) | "Diversity & Inclusiveness" Language on ICANN Website | |
| 3 Jun 2025 | Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Mia Brickhouse [Published 4 Jun 2025] | President and Chief Executive Officer | ICANN | Improving ICANN Meeting Outcomes | 9 Apr 2025: Mia Brickhouse to Kurt Erik Lindqvist and Tripti Sinha |
| 27 May 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Hans Petter Holen et al. [Published 27 May 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | Update on ICANN Reviews | |
| 27 May 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Chris Disspain and Sophie Hey [Published 27 May 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | Pilot Holistic Review |
24 Mar 2025: Sophie Hey and Chris Disspain to ICANN Board |
| 23 May 2025 | Russ Weinstein to Nicolas Caballero [Published 10 Jun 2025] | Senior Vice President, Policy Development Support | ICANN | Status of GAC Advice in the Action Request Register (ARR) | |
| 23 May 2025 | Hadia Elminiawi to Tripti Sinha [Published 29 May 2025] | Chair | African Regional At-Large Organization (AFRALO) | Joint ICANN82 AFRALO-AFRICANN Statement on Promoting African Digital Identity in the Next gTLD Round: Addressing Challenges and Leveraging Support Mechanisms | |
| 21 May 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Greg DiBiase [Published 22 May 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | GNSO Council Recommendations Report: Transfer Policy Review PDP Working Group | 11 Apr 2025: Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha |
| 21 May 2025 | Jennifer Bryce to Alejandra Reynoso, et al. [Published 22 May 2025] | Project Manager, Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) | ICANN | Appointment of Members and Liaisons to the Customer Standing Committee (CSC) | |
| 20 May 2025 | Theresa Swinehart to Ram Mohan [Published 21 May 2025] | Senior Vice President, Global Domains & Strategy | ICANN | Update on SAC114 Advice Items | |
| 7 May 2025 | Kim Davies to Geoffrey Huston [Published 11 Jun 2025] | VP, IANA Services | ICANN and President | PTI | DNSSEC Signing of root-servers.net Consultation | 7 Mar 2025: Geoff Huston to Kim Davies, Jeff Osborn, Duane Wessels |
| 7 May 2025 | Samantha Eisner to Greg DiBiase and Alejandra Reynoso [Published 2 Jun 2025] | Deputy General Counsel | ICANN | Article 17 Bylaws Revisions to Effectuate CSC Effectiveness Review | |
| 6 May 2025 | Theresa Swinehart to Greg DiBiase [Published 7 May 2025] | Senior Vice President, Global Domains & Strategy | ICANN | Urgent Requests for Disclosure of Registration Data | 27 Mar 2025: Greg DiBiase to Theresa Swinehart |
| 2 May 2025 | Matt Larson to Jeff Osborn [Published 13 May 2025] | Vice President of Research, Office of the CTO | ICANN | Closing recommendations from RSSAC028 in the Action Request Registry (ARR) | |
| 23 Apr 2025 | Tripti Sinha to H.E. Khalid Ali Salim Al Sunaidi [Published 24 Apr 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | Preserving the Rights to .gcc | 16 May 2024: H.E. Khalid Ali Salim Al Sunaidi |
| 23 Apr 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Hadia Elminiawi [Published 24 Apr 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | Joint ICANN81 AFRALO-AFRICANN Statement on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Enhancing Multilingualism in the African Internet Space: An ICANN Initiative | 13 Feb 2025: Hadia El Miniawi to Tripti Sinha |
| 23 Apr 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Greg DiBiase [Published 24 Apr 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | Final GNSO Council Review of ICANN82 Seattle GAC Communiqué |
10 Apr 2025: Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha |
| 21 Apr 2025 | Greg DiBiase to Theresa Swinehart [Published 22 Apr 2025] | Chair | Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council | RAA Requirements Related to Billing Contact | |
| 15 Apr 2025 | Alejandra Reynoso to Tripti Sinha [Published 18 Apr 2025] | Chair | Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) Council | Pilot Holistic Review (PHR) and Evaluation of Reviews | |
| 15 Apr 2025 | Jonathan Zuck to Tripti Sinha [Published 18 Apr 2025] | Chair | At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) | Continuous Improvement Program (CIP), Pilot Holistic Review (PHR), and the Fourth Accountability and Transparency Review (ATRT4) | |
| 14 Apr 2025 | Elizabeth Bacon to Tripti Sinha [Published 18 Apr 2025] | Chair | Registries Stakeholder Group, Chair | Pilot Holistic Review (PHR) and Evaluation of Reviews | |
| 11 Apr 2025 | Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha [Published 14 Apr 2025] | Chair | Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council | GNSO Council Recommendations Report: Transfer Policy Review PDP Working Group | 21 May 2025: Tripti Sinha to Greg DiBiase |
| 10 Apr 2025 | Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha [Published 14 Apr 2025] | Chair | Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council | Final GNSO Council Review of ICANN82 Seattle GAC Communiqué |
23 Apr 2025: Tripti Sinha to Greg DiBiase |
| 9 Apr 2025 | Mia Brickhouse to Kurt Erik Lindqvist and Tripti Sinha [Published 10 Apr 2025] | Independent | Improving ICANN Meeting Outcomes | |
| 4 Apr 2025 | Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha [Published 8 Apr 2025] | Chair | Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council | Preliminary GNSO Council Review of ICANN82 Seattle GAC Communiqué |
23 Apr 2025: Tripti Sinha to Greg DiBiase |
| 1 Apr 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Mason Cole and Julf Helsingius [Published 2 Apr 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | NCPH Day 0 Meeting ICANN81 | 20 Dec 2024: Mason Cole and Julf Helsingius to Tripti Sinha, Kurt Erik Lindqvist, and ICANN Board Members |
| 27 Mar 2025 | Greg DiBiase to Theresa Swinehart [Published 28 Mar 2025] | Chair | Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council | Urgent Requests for Disclosure of Registration Data | |
| 24 Mar 2025 | Sophie Hey and Chris Disspain to ICANN Board [Published 26 Mar 2025] | Co-Chairs, Pilot Holistic Review (PHR) Team | Pilot Holistic Review |
27 May 2025: Tripti Sinha to Chris Disspain and Sophie Hey |
| 21 Mar 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Nicolas Caballero [Published 24 Mar 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | ICANN82 Seattle GAC Communiqué | 17 Mar 2025: ICANN82 Seattle GAC Communiqué |
| 9 Mar 2025 | Amy Stathos to Michael Palage [Published 9 Mar 2025] | ICANN | Deputy General Counsel | ICANN Cybersecurity Incident Reporting Inquiry | 5 Mar 2025: Michael Palage to Jamie Hedlund |
| 7 Mar 2025 | Geoff Huston to Kim Davies, Jeff Osbron, Duane Wessels [Published 11 Jun 2025] | Chair | Root Zone Evolution Review Committee (RZERC) | DNSSEC Signing of root-servers.net Consultation | 7 May 2025: Kim Davies to Geoffrey Huston |
| 7 Mar 2025 | John Crain to Gowtamsingh Dabee [Published 9 Mar 2025] | ICANN | Chief Technology Officer | Continuing AFRINIC's Allocation of Numbering Resources to the Region |
3 Jul 2025: Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Gowtamsingh Dabee 26 Jun 2025: Gowtamsingh Dabee to Kurt Erik Lindqvist [confidential per sender's request] |
| 5 Mar 2025 | Michael Palage to Jamie Hedlund [Published 9 Mar 2025] | Independent | ICANN Cybersecurity Incident Reporting Inquiry | 9 Mar 2025: Amy Stathos to Michael Palage |
| 4 Mar 2025 | Ram Mohan to Tripti Sinha [Published 6 Mar 2025] | Chair, ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) | Delegation Signer (DS) Automation | |
| 3 Mar 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Jonathan Zuck and Ram Mohan [Published 4 Mar 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | Delegation Signer (DS) Automation | |
| 21 Feb 2025 | Alan Barrett to Chris Disspain and Sophie Hey [Published 25 Feb 2025] | Chair | Board Organizational Effectiveness Committee (OEC) | ICANN | Pilot Holistic Review |
27 May 2025: Tripti Sinha to Chris Disspain and Sophie Hey |
| 21 Feb 2025 | Nicolas Caballero to Tripti Sinha [Published 24 Feb 2025] | Chair | Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) | Phase 2 Final Report of the EPDP on Internationalized Domain Names | |
| 19 Feb 2025 | Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha [Published 20 Feb 2025] | Chair | Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO) Council | ICANN Board Liaison to the GNSO Latin Script Diacritics Policy Development Process (PDP) Working Group (WG) | 18 Jun 2025: Tripti Sinha to Greg DiBiase |
| 14 Feb 2025 | Chris Mondini to Nicolas Caballero [Published 7 Mar 2025] | Managing Director, VP Stakeholder Engagement, Europe | ICANN | Next Round: Outreach and Engagement Reports | 11 Dec 2024: Nicolas Caballero to Chris Mondini |
| 13 Feb 2025 | Sophie Hey and Chris Disspain to Alan Barrett [Published 25 Feb 2025] | Co-Chairs, Pilot Holistic Review (PHR) Team | Pilot Holistic Review |
27 May 2025: Tripti Sinha to Chris Disspain and Sophie Hey |
| 13 Feb 2025 | Hadia Elminiawi to ICANN Board [Published 14 Feb 2025] | Chair | African Regional At-Large Organization (AFRALO) | Joint ICANN81 AFRALO-AFRICANN Statement on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Enhancing Multilingualism in the African Internet Space: An ICANN Initiative | 23 Apr 2025: Tripti Sinha to Hadia Elminiawi |
| 31 Jan 2025 | Theresa Swinehart to Greg DiBiase [Published 3 Feb 2025] | Senior Vice President, Global Domains & Strategy | ICANN | RDS-WHOIS2 Recommendation CC.1 | |
| 29 Jan 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Nicolas Caballero [Published 30 Jan 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | Auctions: Mechanisms of Last Resort/Private Resolution of Contention Sets in New gTLDs | 13 Dec 2024: Nicolas Caballero to Tripti Sinha |
| 29 Jan 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Nicolas Caballero [Published 30 Jan 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | Bylaws Consultation on ICANN80 Applicant Support Program (ASP) GAC Advice | 16 Oct 2024: Nicolas Caballero to Tripti Sinha |
| 29 Jan 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Greg DiBiase [Published 30 Jan 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | Contention Sets | 11 Nov 2024: Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha |
| 29 Jan 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Jonathan Zuck [Published 30 Jan 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | Advice regarding Standing for Objections in the Next Round Program | |
| 24 Jan 2025 | Kim Davies to Government Chief Digital Officer [Published 3 Feb 2025] | VP, IANA Services | ICANN and President | PTI | Disposition of the .GB country-code top-level domain | |
| 23 Jan 2025 | Becky Burr to Alejandra Reynoso [Published 25 Feb 2025] | Chair | Board Caucus ccPDP3 Review Mechanisms (ccPDP3 RM) | ccPDP3 Review Mechanism | 11 Dec 2024: Becky Burr to Alejandra Reynoso |
| 20 Jan 2025 | Nicolas Caballero to Tripti Sinha [Published 22 Jan 2025] | Chair | Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) | Proposed Update to Recommendation 7 from the New gTLD Auction Proceeds Cross-Community Working Group | 23 Dec 2024: Tripti Sinha to Nicolas Caballero |
| 17 Jan 2025 | Kurt Erik Lindqvist to John McElwaine [Published 20 Jan 2025] | President and Chief Executive Officer | ICANN | Welcome Letter to CEO | 19 Dec 2024: John McElwaine to Kurt Erik Lindqvist |
| 14 Jan 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Greg DiBiase [Published 15 Jan 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | Request for ICANN Board Liaison to the Transfer Policy Review (TPR) Policy Development Process | 4 Jun 2024: Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha |
| 9 Jan 2025 | Becky Burr to Amir Qayyum [Published 22 Jan 2025] | Chair | Board Governance Committee (BGC) ICANN | Guidance from the ICANN Board to the Nominating Committee Re: Important Skills for Board Members | |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Jonathan Zuck and Ram Mohan to Tripti Sinha [Published 13 Jan 2025] | Chair | At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC)
Chair, ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC) |
Delegation Signer (DS) Automation | |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Mason Cole [Published 9 Jan 2025] | President and Chief Executive Officer | ICANN | Welcome Letter to CEO | 17 Dec 2024: Mason Cole to Kurt Erik Lindqvist |
| 8 Jan 2025 | Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Jan Janssen [Published 9 Jan 2025] | President and Chief Executive Officer | ICANN | Welcome Letter to CEO | 2 Jan 2025: Jan Janssen to Kurt Erik Lindqvist |
| 2 Jan 2025 | Jan Janssen to Kurt Erik Lindqvist [Published 7 Jan 2025] | Secretary | Intellectual Property Constituency | Welcome Letter to CEO | 8 Jan 2025: Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Jan Janssen |
| 2 Jan 2025 | Tripti Sinha to Gregory DiBiase [Published 3 Jan 2025] | Chair | ICANN Board of Directors | Final GNSO Council Review of ICANN81 Istanbul GAC Communiqué | 19 Dec 2024: Gregory DiBiase |
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."