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<h2>News Alert</h2>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-03-01-en">https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2016-03-01-en</a></p>
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<h2 style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px;">IDN ccTLD Request from Bulgaria Successfully Passes String Evaluation</h2>
<p>1 March 2016</p>
<p>ICANN is pleased to announce the successful evaluation of the proposed IDN ccTLD string for Bulgaria.</p>
<p>Details of the successful evaluation are provided here: <a href="https://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion">
http://www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion</a></p>
<p>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:</p>
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<li>The script used to represent the IDN ccTLDs must be non-Latin; </li><li>The languages used to express the IDN ccTLDs must be official in the corresponding country or territory; and
</li><li>A specific set of technical requirements must be met. </li></ul>
<p>The request and evaluation processes entail three steps:</p>
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<li>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
<a href="http://forms.icann.org/idn/apply.php">http://forms.icann.org/idn/apply.php</a></li><li>String Evaluation: Requests are evaluated in accordance with the technical and linguistic requirements for the IDN ccTLD string(s) criteria described above.
</li><li>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:
<a href="mailto:root-mgmt@iana.org">root-mgmt@iana.org</a>. </li></ul>
<p>With this announcement, requests from a total of 39 countries/territories have successfully passed through the String Evaluation stage. Of these, 33 countries/territories (represented by 43 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
<a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/fast-track-2012-02-25-en">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/fast-track-2012-02-25-en</a>.</p>
<p>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
<a href="mailto:idncctldrequest@icann.org">idncctldrequest@icann.org</a> for any inquiries for participation.</p>
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