ICANN is pleased to announce the successful completion of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track String Evaluation for four proposed IDN ccTLDs.
The requests are associated with: Egypt, the Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.
The IDN (Internationalised Domain Name) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board at its annual meeting in Seoul, South Korea on 30 October 2009. First requests were received starting 16 November 2009. The process enables countries and territories to submit requests to ICANN for IDN ccTLDs, representing their respective country or territory names in scripts other than Latin. IDN ccTLD requesters must fulfil a number of requirements:
the script used to represent the IDN ccTLDs must be non-Latin;
the languages used to express the IDN ccTLDs must be official in the corresponding country or territory; and
a specific set of technical requirements must be met
You can read the full announcement here .
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