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Press Release: Registration Open for ICANN DNS Symposium and LAC Domain Names Week

The Series of Events Runs From 23 to 26 September 2024

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Montevideo, Uruguay – 17 July 2024 – Registration is now open for the 2024 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) DNS Symposium (IDS) and the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) Domain Names Week. Both events will be held in Santa Marta, Colombia and accessible online.

Commencing with a full day of plenary sessions, the week-long series of events promises a comprehensive exploration into the pivotal issues that impact the Domain Name System (DNS) landscape. These events are intended to foster ongoing collaboration among relevant stakeholders, which is key to ensuring the security, stability, and resiliency of DNS, which in turn supports a single, globally interoperable Internet. The schedule of events:

  • Monday, 23 September – Plenary Sessions (IDS and LAC Domain Names Week)
  • Tuesday, 24 September – LAC Domain Names Week
  • Wednesday, 25 September – IDS
  • Thursday, 26 September – DNS Community Day by the DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Center (DNS OARC)

LAC Domain Names Week brings together individuals from the public and private sectors, as well as technical communities interested in exploring topics related to the DNS. Participants include registries, registrars, country code top-level domain (ccTLDs) and generic top-level domain (gTLD) resellers, intellectual property lawyers, and other interested professionals. This year, ICANN is organizing the event with the Latin American and Caribbean Address Registry, the Latin American and Caribbean Association of ccTLDs, the Internet Society, the Public Interest Registry, the Ministry of ICT of Colombia, and the ccTLD .CO.

The theme of IDS 2024 is "Navigating the Future: Innovations and Challenges in DNS Operations".

"This marks the first time IDS 2024 will be hosted in Latin America since initiating the symposium in 2017," said Matt Larson, VP of Research in the Office of the CTO, ICANN. "This opportunity is exciting and timely, with the region emerging as a dynamic hub of technological advancement and digital innovation".

IDS is intended for attendees in the DNS industry, such as DNS hosting providers and others who operate DNS infrastructure, generic top-level domain (gTLD) brand and geographic registries, ICANN-accredited registrars, gTLD resellers, gTLD hosting providers, and registry service providers.

"Fostering these technical dialogues in a country that stands as the fourth-largest Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) market in Latin America is significant. It amplifies our collective impact on regional digital advancement," said Rodrigo de la Parra, VP, Stakeholder Engagement, Latin America and the Caribbean, ICANN.

Please visit our registration page to sign up.

Media Contact

Alexandra Dans
Director of Communications, The Americas
ICANN
Tel: +598 95 831 442
Email: alexandra.dans@icann.org

Felipe Berhau
Communications Coordinator, The Americas
ICANN
Tel: +598 99 438 474
Email: felipe.berhau@icann.org

About ICANN

ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address – a name or a number – into your computer or other device. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a nonprofit public benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.

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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."