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==By Country or Region== | ==By Country or Region== | ||
===India=== | ===India=== | ||
In 2013 Government of India started domain name registry | In 2013, the Government of India started a domain name registry for .bharat (in Hindi) IDNs in multiple regional languages. In support of that [https://www.xgenplus.com/idn-email-web-hosting/ XgenPlus] - an Indian email solutions company started to offer [http://thetechportal.com/2016/08/18/xgenplus-supports-idn-domain-names-in-india/ IDN compliant email server] and hosted email services much before Gmail / Office365 and yahoo. | ||
===Iran=== | ===Iran=== | ||
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===Italy=== | ===Italy=== | ||
Beginning | Beginning on July 11, 2012, all .it domain names began allowing [[IDN|Internationalized Domain Names]] (IDN), allowing them to support Italian, French, and German accents and characters. In five minutes, 1,737 new IDNs were registered; in thirty, 2,620; in four hours, eight thousand.<ref name="idn">[http://centr.org/news/07-16-2012/2191/idn-success-italy IDN Success in Italy], Centr.org. Published 16 July 2012. Retrieved 29 November 2012.</ref> The first .it IDN name, registered in three seconds, was perché.it, followed by perchè.it, a misspelling of the former. Common words were registered in the first hours, along with accented words that are usually devoid of accents, such as "agentì", "pizzà", and "ìtalià". Non-Italian proper nouns were also registered in their native tongue, in the case of IDNs related to Austria -- österreich.it -- and the German city Cologne -- köln.it.<ref name="idn"></ref> | ||
===Turkey=== | ===Turkey=== | ||
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===Middle East Region=== | ===Middle East Region=== | ||
As of December 2014, 2̬% of the existing 91,000 full IDNs were in Arabic script, and the leading ones were [[.موقع]] (.mawqe, aka "site") and [[.شبكة]] (.shabaka, aka "web"). The strong performers in the region are United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Islamic Republic of Iran.<ref name="study"></ref> | As of December 2014, 2̬% of the existing 91,000 full IDNs were in Arabic script, and the leading ones were [[.موقع]] (.mawqe, aka "site") and [[.شبكة]] (.shabaka, aka "web"). The strong performers in the region are the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Islamic Republic of Iran.<ref name="study"></ref> | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||