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FY27 ICANN Operating Plan and Budget

Rejection Action Petition Period

Rejection Action Petition Support Period

Rejection Action Community Forum Period

Rejection Action Decision Period

Empowered Community Rejection Notice

Petition Phase

Forum Phase

Decision Phase

11 MAY

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11 MAY

Rejection Action Petition Period

21 Days

Rejection Action Petition Support Period(Petition Phase)

7 Days

Rejection Action Community Forum Period(Forum Phase)

21 Days*

Rejection Action Decision Period(Decision Phase)

21 Days

Empowered Community Rejection Notice(Decision Phase)

24 Hours

Start: Delivery of Rejection Action Board Notice

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ACTION STARTED ON 11 MAY 2026

Date	Correspondence	Sender Affiliation	Issue	Related Correspondence
11 May 2026	Notice of Board Approval of ICANN FY27 Operating Plan and Budget [Published on 12 May 2026]	ICANN Secretary	Empowered Community's Power to Reject

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."