DNS & Internet Infrastructure

Latin Script Diacritics

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A uniform way to handle diacritics in domain names, similar to IDN Variants, has been a long-standing demand from several parts of At-Large, including the Canadian French-speaking territories. The asymmetry between Diacritics and Variants arose from the way the Latin Generation Panel has chosen to treat diacritic labels–as distinctly separate code points, and not as … Read more

DNS Abuse

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23 February 2026. The At-Large Community is gearing up for the ICANN85 Community Forumtaking place on 7-12 March 2026 in Mumbai, India, where one of several areas of priority for us is the evergreen topic of DNS Abuse Mitigation. The At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) had first initiated a cross-community conversation on this topic via a … Read more