[ALAC-Announce] ICANN News Alert -- IDN ccTLD Request from European Commission Successfully Passes String Evaluation

ICANN At-Large Staff staff at atlarge.icann.org
Wed Dec 2 19:32:29 UTC 2015


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https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2015-12-02-en

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IDN ccTLD Request from European Commission Successfully Passes String Evaluation

2 December 2015

ICANN is pleased to announce the successful evaluation of the proposed IDN ccTLD string in Cyrillic script for the European Commission.

Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion<https://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion>

The Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) ccTLD Fast Track Process was approved by the ICANN Board at its annual meeting in Seoul, South Korea on 30 October 2009. First requests were received starting 16 November 2009. The process enables countries and territories to submit requests to ICANN for IDN ccTLDs, representing their respective country or territory names in scripts other than Latin. IDN ccTLD requesters must fulfill a number of requirements:

  *   The script used to represent the IDN ccTLDs must be non-Latin;
  *   The languages used to express the IDN ccTLDs must be official in the corresponding country or territory; and
  *   A specific set of technical requirements must be met.

The request and evaluation processes entail 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. Requests are submitted through an online system together with additional material supporting the process at http://forms.icann.org/idn/apply.php
  *   String Evaluation: Requests are evaluated in accordance with the technical and linguistic requirements for the IDN ccTLD string(s) criteria described above.
  *   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. Requesters submit string delegation requests to IANA root zone management: root-mgmt at iana.org<mailto:root-mgmt at iana.org>.

With this announcement, requests from a total of 38 countries/territories have successfully passed through the String Evaluation stage. Of these, 31 countries/territories (represented by 41 IDN ccTLDs) are delegated in the DNS root zone, with the remainder either readying to apply, or actively applying for delegation of the string. Up-to-date information about the IDN Fast Track Program will continue to be provided on the Fast Track Process web page at https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/fast-track-2012-02-25-en.

ICANN will continue to accept new string evaluation requests for non-Latin country-code top-level domains for countries and territories that meet the Fast Track Process requirements. Please email idncctldrequest at icann.org<mailto:idncctldrequest at icann.org> for any inquiries for participation.


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