Today marks the introduction of the first IDN cctlds in the DNS root.
The first three non-latin country code top level domains to go live in the root according to ICANN’s blog, are:
السعودية (“Al-Saudiah” – Saudi Arabia), امارات. ( “Emarat” – UAE) and مصر. (“Misr” – Egypt)
You can view a functioning, full IDN website (Egypt [...]
While Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the U.A.E. receive delegation approval for their applied icctlds, Jordan is next on the growing list of countries to pass the ICANN string evaluation process.
The cctld applied for is
الاردن
[xn--mgbayh7gpa]
IDN domain investors have been wondering where Japan is during all this. Somewhere on the other side of the Pacific, I [...]
Taiwan, Thailand and Tunisia are in the second batch of countries passing the string evaluation process and are now eligible for string delegation.
Taiwan’s primary strings are
xn--kpry57d
台灣
xn--kprw13d
台湾
Thailand’s is
xn--o3cw4h
ไทย
and Tunisia’s is
xn--pgbs0dh
تونس
According to ICANN, these three countries are free to enter the third part of the IDN Fast Track process, which is string delegation.
Glad to see more countries [...]
Today marks an important IDN Historic event as four countries pass the evaluation process of the IDN cctld Fast Track.
The first four countries/territories to have passed the evaluation process [ awaiting delegation ] are:
Saudi Arabia with primary string:
xn--mgberp4a5d4ar
السعودية
and variant strings:
xn--mgberp4a5d4a87g
السعودیة
xn--mgbqly7c0a67fbc
السعودیۃ
xn--mgbqly7cvafr
السعوديه
Egypt with string:
xn--wgbh1c
مصر
United Arab Emirates with string:
xn--mgbaam7a8h
امارات
and Russia with string:
xn--p1ai
рф
Our congratulations first to the first four [...]
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