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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
29 Jul 2025 Tripti Sinha to Hadia Elminiawi [Published 30 July 2025] Chair | ICANN Board of Directors Joint ICANN82 AFRALO-AFRICANN Statement on Promoting African Digital Identity in the Next gTLD Round: Addressing Challenges and Leveraging Support Mechanisms 23 May 2025: Hadia Elminiawi to Tripti Sinha
25 Jul 2025 Tripti Sinha to Greg DiBiase [Published 29 Jul 2025] Chair | ICANN Board of Directors GNSO Council Review of ICANN83 Prague GAC Communiqué

11 Jul 2025: Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha

16 Jun 2025: ICANN83 Prague GAC Communiqué

25 Jul 2025 Tripti Sinha to Nicolas Caballero [Published 28 Jul 2025] Chair | ICANN Board of Directors Final Report of the Transfer Policy Review PDP Working Group  
16 Jul 2025 Kurt Erik Lindqvist to the Honorable Avinash Ramtohul and Gowtamsingh Dabee [Published 16 Jul 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

25 Jun 2025: Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Gowtamsingh Dabee

26 Jun 2025: Gowtamsingh Dabee to Kurt Erik Lindqvist [confidential per sender's request]

7 Mar 2025: John Crain to Gowtamsingh Dabee

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

25 Jul 2025: Tripti Sinha to Greg DiBiase

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

16 Jul 2025: Kurt Erik Lindqvist to the Honorable Avinash Ramtohul and Gowtamsingh Dabee

26 Jun 2025: Gowtamsingh Dabee to Kurt Erik Lindqvist [confidential per sender's request]

25 Jun 2025: Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Gowtamsingh Dabee

7 Mar 2025: John Crain to Gowtamsingh Dabee

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

16 Jul 2025: Kurt Erik Lindqvist to the Honorable Avinash Ramtohul and Gowtamsingh Dabee

3 Jul 2025: Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Gowtamsingh Dabee

26 Jun 2025: Gowtamsingh Dabee to Kurt Erik Lindqvist [confidential per sender's request]

7 Mar 2025: John Crain to Gowtamsingh Dabee

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

21 Feb 2025: Alan Barrett to Chris Disspain and Sophie Hey

13 Feb 2025: Sophie Hey and Chris Disspain to Alan Barrett

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 29 Jul 2025: Tripti Sinha to Hadia Elminiawi
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

4 Apr 2025: Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha

17 Mar 2025: ICANN82 Seattle GAC Communiqué

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

4 Apr 2025: Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha

17 Mar 2025: ICANN82 Seattle GAC Communiqué

9 Apr 2025 Mia Brickhouse to Kurt Erik Lindqvist and Tripti Sinha [Published 10 Apr 2025] Independent Improving ICANN Meeting Outcomes

3 Jun 2025: Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Mia Brickhouse

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

10 Apr 2025: Greg DiBiase to Tripti Sinha

17 Mar 2025: ICANN82 Seattle GAC Communiqué

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

6 May 2025: Theresa Swinehart to Greg DiBiase

15 Oct 2024: Nicolas Caballero to Tripti Sinha

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 Feb 2025: Alan Barrett to Chris Disspain and Sophie Hey

13 Feb 2025: Sophie Hey and Chris Disspain to Alan Barrett

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

16 Jul 2025: Kurt Erik Lindqvist to the Honorable Avinash Ramtohul and Gowtamsingh Dabee

3 Jul 2025: Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Gowtamsingh Dabee

26 Jun 2025: Gowtamsingh Dabee to Kurt Erik Lindqvist [confidential per sender's request]

25 Jun 2025: Kurt Erik Lindqvist to Gowtamsingh Dabee

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

8 Jan 2025: Jonathan Zuck and Ram Mohan to Tripti Sinha

3 Mar 2025 Tripti Sinha to Jonathan Zuck and Ram Mohan [Published 4 Mar 2025] Chair | ICANN Board of Directors Delegation Signer (DS) Automation

4 Mar 2025: Ram Mohan to Tripti Sinha

8 Jan 2025: Jonathan Zuck and Ram Mohan to Tripti Sinha

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

24 Mar 2025: Sophie Hey and Chris Disspain to ICANN Board

13 Feb 2025: Sophie Hey and Chris Disspain to Alan Barrett

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

23 Dec 2024: Tripti Sinha to Nicolas Caballero

15 May 2024: Nicolas Caballero to Tripti Sinha

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

24 Mar 2025: Sophie Hey and Chris Disspain to ICANN Board

21 Feb 2025: Alan Barrett 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

4 Mar 2025: Ram Mohan to Tripti Sinha

3 Mar 2025: Tripti Sinha to Jonathan Zuck and Ram Mohan

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."