Yesterday,ICANN announced that Bangladesh have passed the srting evaluation stage for its planned IDN ccTLD .
The government decided to use ‘.বাংলা’ as primary string and ‘.বাংলাদেশ’, ‘.বং’, ‘.বঙ্গ’, ‘.বিডি’ as variant strings.
Bangla domain names will definitely make search engines more efficient for content in the language .
So far,a total of 26 countries have successfully passed through the String Evaluation .
The request and evaluation processes have three steps :
- Preparation (by the requester in the country / territory). Community consensus is built for which IDN ccTLD to apply for, how it is run, and which organization will be running it, along with preparing and gathering all the required supporting documentation.
- String Evaluation: incoming requests to ICANN in accordance with the criteria described above: the technical and linguistic requirements for the IDN ccTLD string(s). Applications are received through an online system available together with additional material supporting the process
- String Delegation: requests successfully meeting string evaluation criteria are eligible to apply for delegation following the same ICANN IANA process as is used for ASCII based ccTLDs. String delegation requests are submitted to IANA root zone management.