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First IDN cctlds in the Root

epsilon — Thu, 06 May 2010 12:58:33 +0000

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 Ministry of Communications) at this address

Congrats to the first three countries to go fully IDN, we’ll certainly be keeping an eye out for the ones to follow and, most importantly, we’ll be anxiously awaiting for the internationalization of the gtlds to signal the completion of the true multilingual internet.

Jordan idn cctld application passes string evaluation

epsilon — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:45:22 +0000

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 suppose [depending on where you live].

The Russian Minister of Communications announced that he expects to see Cyrillic domains in the top level .рф sometime in Septemebr 2010.

Meanwhile, Verisign are keeping to themselves. Mum’s the word…

Three more countries pass string evaluation

epsilon — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:50:19 +0000

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 coming out of the gate. Hopefully we’ll see more in the next few days since it was mentioned that there were 15 applications in the cue for evaluation.

Added.

China, Hong Kong, Palestinian Territory, Qatar and Sri Lanka added to the list of countries/territories to pass string evaluation.

IDN History in the making First 4 IDN cctlds pass evaluation process

epsilon — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:10:13 +0000

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 countries on the list, a big Thanks to ICANN, Tina Dam and her IDN crew, and a pat on the back to ourselves for patiently waiting for this moment in IDN History.

Time to take a moment, reflect in the events of the past few years, look forward and GET READY TO RUMBLE.

Let the Games begin.

More details on this story at the ICANN site.