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Egypt is the luckiest country of the Global Internet to take First Leap on the “Localized Internet” by launching foremost IDN ccTLD with ???. i.e. ?????-?????????.???. It comes up on Firefox as,
http://xn—4gbrim.xn——rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn—wgbh1c/ar/default.aspx
and even when you click the English button it still shows up as,
http://xn—4gbrim.xn——rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn—wgbh1c/Default.aspx
What is the Scene Behind the Screen of IDN ccTLDs:
Fundamental & imperative story behind this enablement of a meaningful string as IDN ccTLD name script in local language is very interesting. Previously there was a limitation of two letters as abbreviation for the IDN ccTLD name script and it is I, who proposed and convinced ICANN to remove this limitations that enabled all countries and territories of the world (who use non-Latin base script of their official language) to apply for a meaningful abbreviation or full name of the country as IDN ccTLD. Otherwise, it could be only ?????-?????????.?? with assigning two characters to Egypt for their Arabic IDN ccTLD as “.??” instead of “.???”.
Contributions includes efforts to convince ICANN’s Workgroup for the followings:
Conclusion: I have got global level achievement because 250+ Countries & Territories are the BENEFICIARY trough the acceptance of my above listed proposals for the preparation of new Layers of the Language base Internet.
PROS: Egypt, UAE and Saudi Arabia did not have shorter meaningful abbreviations in their Native Languages (Arabic), so, they got benefit to obtain meaningful abbreviations for IDN ccTLD. The foot marks of the Egypt will be recorded in the history as pioneer of IDN ccTLD website in Arabic Language.
CONS: However, unfortunately in my own country, in Pakistan, Public (Internet community) may lose the sharp and smart choice of appropriate IDN ccTLD i.e. “???.” (PAK). Instead of getting benefit of the removal of two characters limitation, we will be in huge loss by applying for a longer and full name script “???????.” (PAKISTAN) in Urdu Language. Every user of this new mechanism will have to type 4 extra letters to browse or to send email.
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Cyrillic Version of IDN ccTLD Names with .?? for Russian Federation has become available for Registration. Sunrise Period {Trademarks}: The "Sunrise" period for registering trademarks under this domain extension has just been extended to September 16, 2010. Holders of Russian or International Trademarks are entitled to submit "Sunrise" registration applications.