In a letter sent to the ICANN Board on 7 September and published by ICANN on 12 September,Amazon asks the Board 'to immediately approve [its] long-pending .amazon applications'. The company builds its request on the July 2017 declaration of an Independent Review Process Panel (IRP), which concluded that the Board acted in a manner inconsistent with ICANN bylaws when rejecting the application for .amazon. The letter also underlined several reasons why Amazon is of the view that its generic top-level domain applications should be approved: 'because there is no sovereign right under international or national law to the name "Amazon", because there are no well-founded and substantiated public policy reasons to block our Applications, because we are committed to using the TLDs in a respectful manner, and because the Board should respect the IRP accountability mechanism'.