ICANN Announces Results of New gTLD Universal Acceptance Analysis

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ICANN Announces Results of New gTLD Universal Acceptance Analysis

By CircleID Reporter
September 16, 2015, 3:15 pm PDT Views: 7,660 Add Comment

ICANN, in conjunction with the Universal Acceptance Steering Group (UASG) announced this week the availability of a new report: An Analysis of New gTLD Universal Acceptance. The study focuses on the concept of removing all technical barriers that might hinder a user from accessing any name in any top-level domain (TLD) from any web browser, email client, or other Internet application on any computer or electronic device.

“These results were in-line with our expectations,” said ICANN’s Chief Technology Officer, David Conrad. “However, there will need to be changes to systems and software to fully leverage the global opportunities these new TLDs enable.”

APNIC Labs, the research arm of the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), conducted the tests and analysis, which included measuring overall and per-country acceptance of certain generic top-level domains (gTLDs) by end-users and the domain name system (DNS) as a whole. The tests show that there were no underlying infrastructure obstacles to the accessibility of any TLDs.

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