ICANN | IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Launch
ICANN is pleased to announce the launch of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process.Non-English speakers across the globe will soon have access to the Internet addresses completely in their own language. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN, the organization charged with overseeing the Internet’s naming and numbering systems, is today launching a process for delegating a number of internationalized top-level domains.IDNs are domain names that include characters other than the currently available set of the English alphabet the 26 letters “a-z”, numbers 0 to 9, and hyphens. ICANN Chairman Peter Dengate Thrush noted, “The IDN program will encompass close to one hundred thousand characters, opening up the Internet to billions of potential users around the globe.”
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