IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process

ICANN's IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process was created to enable ccTLD managers to request an expedited evaluation of internationalized versions of their country's top-level domain. Countries with an Alpha-2 code on the ISO 3166-1 Standard are allowed to apply for an IDN ccTLD in scripts other than Latin. The strings must comply with all requirements in the Final Implementation Plan (FIP) for the process.

History

The ICANN Board approved the FIP for the IDN Fast Track Process at ICANN 36 in October, 2009, based on the recommendations provided in the Final Report by the IDN ccTLD Fast-Track Working Group, as well as on public comments provided throughout the IDNC WG's online and public comment facilities, and on public comments received on the previous draft versions of the plan.

The Process was launched on November 16, 2009. The first IDN requests, from Egypt, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, were approved in January 2010.

ICANN reports that as of May 2020, sixty-two string requests had passed through the Fast Track Process, on behalf of forty-three different countries. As of March 2021, a total of seventy strings (including requested variant strings for a specific country) have passed through the process. India accounts for fifteen IDNs, representing four languages in fifteen scripts.

External Links

IDN ccTLD Final Implementation Plan (PDF)

Internationalized Domain Name

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".

Internationalized Domain Name