ICANN to speed up development of IDN Domains

Last Wednesday at Rio de Janeiro The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names (ICANN) announce the speeding up of the development of country-coded top-level domains and local-language scripting . ICANN had dragged its feet on developing country-coded TLD and local-language scripting for years, perhaps a recent agitation by countries such as China  to evolve their own IDN could be one of the reasons ICANN seem to be moving more rapidly on this issue, it could also be that their new Chairman their new chairman, Peter Dengate Thrush, a Kiwi moved the item higher on ICANN’s priority list.

ICANN’s board approved the establishment of an IDN working group at a meeting in Los Angeles earlier this month. Country Code Names Supporting Organisation (ccNSO) Chairman Chris Disspain was quoted as saying “A lot of hard work has been done on IDNs (internationalised domain names) and there is a technical evaluation of their impact…going on as we speak,” he went further to day that “The next step is to develop the policies that will see the creation of new top-level domains in characters from the languages of the world,” Disspain said.

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