Internationalized country code top-level domain
An internationalized country code top-level domain (ITLD) is a country code top-level domain in a non Latin alphabet, such as Arabic. Currently there are three ITLDs: السعودية., مصر. and امارات.
In October 2009, ICANN resolved to start accepting applications for top-level internationalized domain names from representatives of countries and territories starting in November 2009. Such IDN ccTLDs are domain names that are encoded in whole or in part as Unicode and represented in applications as language-specific scripts or alphabets.[1]
Egypt, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates were among the first countries to apply for the new internationalized domain name country code top-level domains and in January 2010 ICANN announced that these countries' IDN ccTLDs were the first four new IDN ccTLDs to have passed the Fast Track String Evaluation within the domain application process.[2] The first such a TLD will be .рф, the Cyrillic abbreviation of Russian Federation, normally known as Russia.[3] Currently Russia uses .ru, which in Cyrillic transliterates as “ру”, which is too similar to .py, the TLD of Paraguay.
References
- ^ "ICANN Bringing the Languages of the World to the Global Internet" (Press release). Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). 30 October 2009. Retrieved 30 October 2009.
- ^ "First IDN ccTLDs Requests Successfully Pass String Evaluation". ICANN. 2010-01-21.
- ^ .РФ Internationalised Domain Name will translate DNS in Russian