Sri Lanka and Thailand join ranks of countries getting their own ccTLD in their own language.
ICANN has delegated five more internationalized domain names for top level country code domain names.
Yesterday the ICANN board approved a resolution delegating two top level domains for Sri Lanka and one for Thailand:
Delegation of IDN ccTLDs:
1. Sri Lanka
Whereas, Sri Lanka is a country currently listed in the ISO 3166-1 standard.
Whereas, .ලංක෠(“Lanka”), encoded as “xn--fzc2c9e2c”; and .இலஙà¯à®•à¯ˆ (“Ilangai”), encoded as “xn--xkc2al3hye2a”; are both strings that have been deemed to appropriately represent Sri Lanka through the IDN Fast Track process.
Whereas, ICANN has received requests for delegation of .ලංක෠and .இலஙà¯à®•à¯ˆ to LK Domain Registry.
Whereas, ICANN has reviewed the requests, and has determined that the proposed delegations would be in the interests of the local and global Internet communities.
RESOLVED (2010.08.05.03), the proposed delegation of .ලංක෠to LK Domain Registry is approved.
RESOLVED (2010.08.05.04), the proposed delegation of .இலஙà¯à®•à¯ˆ to LK Domain Registry is approved.
2. Thailand
Whereas, the Thailand is a country currently listed in the ISO 3166-1 standard.
Whereas, .ไทย (“Thai”), encoded as “xn--o3cw4h”, is a string that has been deemed to appropriately represent Thailand through the IDN Fast Track process.
Whereas, ICANN has received a request for delegation of .ไทย to the Thai Network Information Center Foundation.
Whereas, ICANN has reviewed the request, and has determined that the proposed delegation would be in the interests of the local and global Internet communities.
RESOLVED (2010.08.05.05), the proposed delegation of the .ไทย domain to the Thai Network Information Center Foundation is approved.
A number of Arabic domain names were also delegated:
Ùلسطين (“Falasteen”), encoded as “xn--ygbi2ammx” to Occupied Palestinian Authority
تونس (“Tunis”), encoded as “xn--pgbs0dh” to Tunisia
الاردن (“al-Ordon”), encoded as “xn--mgbayh7gpa” to Jordan
roddy says
i wonder how long until all countries have thier own idn extension , it seems we are reading about a few each week lately