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After nearly a decade of planning, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has stepped up
By Keith White, Customer Relations and Support Specialist

After nearly a decade of planning, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has stepped up to announce that fully internationalized domain names (IDNs) are slated to become a reality. First on the plate are country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) in various languages of the world.
The recent success of .ASIA and the continued growth of international domain markets and internet users have led to an increased awareness of the need for non-English extensions. The creation of new ccTLDs such as “.瓷” instead of .CN, or “.Ελλάδα” in place of .GR, will undoubtedly open the internet and the domain industry to an even broader mix of people, although the actual extensions remain to be seen.

According to Country Code Names Supporting Organization (ccNSO) chairman Chris Disspain, efforts will be directed at areas of highest need in the implementation process, which include the creation of new techno-policies to aid in administration (such as working with the difference between traditional and simplified Chinese, versus interchangeable upper- and lower-case Latin letters) and finding “a way to represent territory identifications in their local languages in operation as ccTLDs.”
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