The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which is responsible for the management and introduction of generic top-level domains (.com, .net, .biz, etcetera) and country-code top-level domains (.us, .de, .ru, etcetera), has approved the Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process. The Process will allow countries to apply for country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) made up of characters used their languages’ alphabet. While alternative alphabets have been allowed in subdomains as early as 1998, all ccTLDs were previously required be written using the Latin alphabet.
Russia, for example, will apply for the Cyrillic ccTLD .рф, which will be in addition to its current ccTLD, .ru. Domains registered under .рф will need to be written completely in the Cyrillic alphabet, i.e. россия.рф will be allowed but russia.рф will not, but this will likely vary from ccTLD to ccTLD and depend on the policies of the various registries.
ICANN will begin accepting applications for internationalized ccTLDs on 16 November. Applications must have government and community support, as well as pass a stability evaluation in order to be accepted. ICANN chairman Peter Dengate Thrush described it as “the biggest technical change to the Internet since it was created four decades ago” and Tina Dam, ICANN’s Senior Director for IDNs, revealed that the Fast Track Process is the result of years of work and planning.
ICANN has detailed the Fast Track Process in a 59-page document.
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