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پاکستان.

ccTLD
Type ccTLD
Status Active
Region AP
Country
  • Pakistan
Introduced October 25, 2010
Implemented February 28, 2011
Script Arabic
In English Pakistan
Punycode xn--mgbai9azgqp6j
Registry National Telecommunication Corporation

پاکستان. is the IDN ccTLD for Pakistan. It is managed by the National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC).[1]

The domain پاکستان. is represented in ASCII-compatible encoding to the IDNA specification as “xn--mgbai9azgqp6j”. The individual Unicode code points that comprise this string are U+067E, U+0627, U+06A9, U+0633, U+062A, U+0627, U+0646.

In Urdu language, the string has a transliteration equivalent to “Pakistan” in English. The string is expressed using the Arabic script.[2]

Delegation History[edit | edit source]

Beginning early 2008, the Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) of Pakistan held multiple workshops and meetings regarding the Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) for Pakistani Languages. The MoIT also formed a Main Technical Committee constituted of relevant local Internet community stakeholders.

Following the above workshops and committee meetings, on October 25, 2010, an application was made to ICANN’s “IDN Fast Track” process to have the string “پاکستان” recognized as representing Pakistan in Arabic script.

On January 7, 2011, a review by the IDN Fast Track DNS Stability Panel found that the applied-for string “presents none of the threats to the stability or security of the DNS identified in Module 4 of the Fast Track implementation plan, and presents an acceptably low risk of user confusion. The request for the “پاکستان” string to represent Pakistan was subsequently approved.

On June 3, 2015, the Main Technical Committee agreed to appoint the National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC) as the registry manager for the .پاکستان IDN ccTLD.[2]

According to NTC's official website, the IDN ccTLD is still under development: "NTC has undertaken the responsibility for managing, registering and administrating پاکستان. domain name. NTC will provide پاکستان. domain space, DNS parking service, registration and maintenance of پاکستان. domain names. It will enable all Pakistan domains to register Domain names in Pakistani local languages and it will provide a platform for local content development in Pakistani languages."[3]

References[edit | edit source]

Country code top-level domain. Determined by "ISO 3166-1: Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions — Part 1: Country codes".

Asia/Australia/Pacific, according to the ICANN Geographic Regions (ICANN Geographic Regions).

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February 28, 2011 +
Date introducedStores the date that an object was introduced, normalized to the "Month DD, YYYY" format.
October 25, 2010 +
Has ICANN regionAssociates an object with an ICANN-determined Geographic Region.
AP +
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Active +
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CcTLD +
Has countryAssociates a page with a country. Territory names are extracted from ISO 3166, "Country Codes".
Pakistan +
Has entity typeSpecifies the primary classification or fundamental type of the page's subject (e.g., Event, Organization, Person).
TLD +
Has registry operatorAssociates an object with a registry operator.
National Telecommunication Corporation +
Is IDNIndicates whether a TLD is an IDN. This is a boolean.
true +
Uses writing scriptStores the writing script associated with an object (e.g., Cyrillic, Hangul, Kana). This value does not get normalized.
Arabic +