Source: BrandShelter News
Date: April 30, 2010

Last week, the ICANN Board (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) approved the first IDN ccTLD delegation requests for the countries Egypt, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The Russian registry is already accepting pre-registrationos of brand owners for domains ending with the IDN TLD РФ (meaning Russian Federation) in the so called “Sunrise”.

The ICANN Board also supports the inclusion of Chinese characters in top-level domains as part of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process. Furthermore, the IDN ccTLD for Jordan has passed the so called String Evaluation stage. This means, the characters for the internationalized domain extension for Jordan are determined now. Thus, Jordan now enters the String Delegation step, the last step in the Fast Track Process, which decides about the delegation. Including Jordan, there are currently 13 countries/territories, that have successfully passed String Evaulation

Fast Track Process means, that ICANN is accepting requests to fast track IDN ccTLD applications. The process enables countries and territories that use languages based on non-Latin scripts to apply for a corresponding domain extension.

Applications for permission to implement an IDN ccTLDs are available only to administrations of countries and territories or their designated representatives, and must constitute a meaningful representation of the country or territory name. At this time, ICANN has 21 requests for IDN ccTLDs, representing eleven languages in the Fast Track Process.

Read more about the IDN ccTLD Fast Track: http://www.icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track

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