ICANN announces First IDN ccTLDs
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”) announced that the first non-Latin character Country Code Top-Level Domains will be inserted in the DNS root zone. It concerns so-called „Internationalized Domain Names“ (IDN).
.РФ Russia IDN Domain (cyrillic) from 1 October 2010
.السعودية Saudi Arabian IDN Domain from 12 July 2010
.امارات United Arab Emirates IDN Domain from 22 October 2010
.مصر Egypt IDN Domain (Launch details not known yet)
À partir du 10 dezember 2009 EURid, l'organisation compétente pour les domaines .EU, accepte l'enregistrement de .EU domaines avec des characteres internationalisés come par exemple "ä", "ü", "ö", "é" etc.