Since yesterday, you can submit an application for registration of the national top-level domain (country code Top Level Domains, ccTLD) containing non-Latin alphabets the letters for the determination of the same domain, TLD, and not only for second-level domain (SLD Second Level Domain).
In the early hours of the new rules several requests in three different languages. Almost simultaneously made them Russia (for the registration of the domain. Ru written in the Cyrillic alphabet) and Egypt (for the registration of the domain. Eg in Arabic). Responsibility in the registration of representatives of both countries waiting for the offices of 00.00 GMT, which is a corporation of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has forward requests electronically. "Now the Internet says in Arabic - said according to representatives of Egypt and the fourth meeting of ICANN in Internet Governance Forum (IGF) held in Sharm El Sheikh.
Overall in the first hours came six different domains of applications stored in three different alphabets - said the head of ICANN Rod Beckstrom. The decision to launch the possibility of registering non-Latin TLDs was taken at a meeting of corporations in Seoul, which took place over two weeks ago. Preparations for this major project was launched back in 2000. But before the new domains will appear in the main zone of the address, it will be a few months. Beckstrom is estimated that this will happen around mid-2010.
Egyptian Minister of Communications Tarek Kamel said that after the introduction of new domains efforts will be made as soon as possible for the registration of the relevant sub-domains for public administration and universities (or equivalent. Edu and. Gov). Egyptian variant of the domain. Edu is vested and administered by the university register. Eg. Other zones subdomains - such as. Com or. Name for individual users - have become the subject of the relevant tenders.
Speaking of names Domain IDN (Internationalized Domain Names) Beckstrom thanked the participants of the IGF meeting. Pressure from governments who are members of the IGF, as well as NGOs and companies have a decisive impact on the finalization of a difficult project internationalization of DNS. "Sent in the last three years, clear signs and were heard" - said Beckstrom.
On the occasion of the inauguration of applying for a national non-Latin domain ICANN has indicated that it will not assign a domain in the requested areas. Apparently, the organization fears the flood of phone inquiries for registration. Tarek Kamel also tried to hamper the general enthusiasm. His opinion is still much to be done - for example on allocation processes and rules for creating new domains. Furthermore, it also solve many linguistic problems.
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