IDN TLD Update
Following yesterday’s big news [http://icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-05may10-en.htm] with the introduction of the first IDN ccTLDs we thought it was a good time to provide an update to where the Fast Track Process is. IDN ccTLDs in the DNS root zone: Egypt: مصر (Egypt) Saudi Arabia: السعودية (AlSaudiah) United Arab Emirates: امارات (Emarat) - in addition Russian Federation: рф (rf) is approved by the ICANN Board for delegation, and related activities are scheduled for the Russian Internet Governance Forum http://russia2010.intgov.net/eng/program.php (next week) A big congratulation to all four countries from the ICANN Team on reaching these goals! We are very much looking forward to seeing how the market will adopt and use these IDN ccTLDs. Also a big THANK YOU goes out to all of those in the communty that have worked on this for years. That is, those on the ground at the various registries and governments that have worked actively locally; the IDNA protocol authors for outstanding technical volunteer work for years; the policy makers for getting the processes ready; application developers for making sure that IDNs functions in all new versions of the main browsers – and so forth. IDN...
Published By: ICANN blog » IDNs - Saturday, 17 September, 2011
