IDN ccTLDs – The First Four
The last week has been focused on historic IDN accomplishments and news: The first four IDN ccTLDs have been introduced and are all functioning. The corresponding countries are: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Russian Federation, and Egypt. This essentially means that we have started seeing domain names where the top-level/extension is either: امارات. السعودية. .рф مصر. Congratulations to the teams behind: • United Arab Emirates: امارات. • Saudi Arabia: السعودية. • Russian Federation: .рф • Egypt: مصر. The simultaneous delegation of the three Arabic based IDN ccTLDs was completed last week, and the delegation of the Russian IDN ccTLD was completed this week in conjunction with the Russian Internet Governance Forum: http://russia2010.intgov.net/eng/program.php This is an history milestone and an achievement reached due to years of hard work by so many people across the world, including: technical developments with the core group in the IETF’s IDNA protocol working group; development of the policies and procedures; application development to ensure IDNs work across browser and other software; and so forth. ICANN would like to thank everyone involved in making IDN TLDs a reality, and we look forward to seeing how IDN TLDs...
Published By: ICANN blog » IDNs - Saturday, 17 September, 2011
