Non-English domains will not be another two years
Perhaps the appearance of a Cyrillic domain zone. RU or. RF and, accordingly, Cyrillic domains in it will have to wait a long time. Previously, it was assumed that ICANN would be able to settle all the formalities by the end of 2007, and now they said that the term could stretch to two years.
In November 2007, a large-scale “live” testing of domains with non-English characters will begin. These tests are needed to make sure that browsers, email programs, and other applications work properly. “We already did some tests in the lab,” said Vint Cerf at an ICANN meeting on Friday. “We are sure that not a single link of the infrastructure should create problems, but you never know for sure until you really start everything.”
The real problems, however, are not at all technical.
ICANN representatives foresee that serious problems will arise when delegating the right to register domains in one language or another. It would seem that the registrar of the national domain should automatically get the right to the domain zone in the national language (the registrar of Chinese .CN receives Chinese domains), but not everyone agrees. For example, the registrar of the Taiwanese zone .TW or some private company may also want to get the right to register domains in Chinese.
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Vint Cerf strongly doubts that at least some progress in this issue will occur before the first quarter of 2008. Paul Twomey, ICANN Executive Director, is even more pessimistic. He said that it takes from one and a half to two years to establish full-fledged rules.
Acceptance of foreign-language domain zones (suffixes) will take place in mid-2008, and this will be only the first stage of the approval procedure.
via Reuters
In November 2007, a large-scale “live” testing of domains with non-English characters will begin. These tests are needed to make sure that browsers, email programs, and other applications work properly. “We already did some tests in the lab,” said Vint Cerf at an ICANN meeting on Friday. “We are sure that not a single link of the infrastructure should create problems, but you never know for sure until you really start everything.”
The real problems, however, are not at all technical.
ICANN representatives foresee that serious problems will arise when delegating the right to register domains in one language or another. It would seem that the registrar of the national domain should automatically get the right to the domain zone in the national language (the registrar of Chinese .CN receives Chinese domains), but not everyone agrees. For example, the registrar of the Taiwanese zone .TW or some private company may also want to get the right to register domains in Chinese.
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Vint Cerf strongly doubts that at least some progress in this issue will occur before the first quarter of 2008. Paul Twomey, ICANN Executive Director, is even more pessimistic. He said that it takes from one and a half to two years to establish full-fledged rules.
Acceptance of foreign-language domain zones (suffixes) will take place in mid-2008, and this will be only the first stage of the approval procedure.
via Reuters
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/11686/
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