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==History==

==History==

The ICANN Board approved the FIP for the IDN Fast Track Process at [[ICANN36]] in October, 2009<ref>[https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2009-10-30-en#2 ICANN Board Meeting Minutes], October 30, 2009</ref> The Process was launched on November 16, 2009.<ref name="evals">[https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/string-evaluation-completion-2014-02-19-en ICANN.org - IDN Fast Track Completed String Evaluations]</ref> The first IDN requests, from Egypt, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, were approved in January 2010.<ref>[https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2010-01-21-en ICANN.org - First IDN ccTLD Requests Successfully Pass String Evaluation], January 21, 2010</ref>

The ICANN Board approved the FIP for the IDN Fast Track Process at [[ICANN 36]] in October, 2009<ref>[https://www.icann.org/resources/board-material/resolutions-2009-10-30-en#2 ICANN Board Meeting Minutes], October 30, 2009</ref> The Process was launched on November 16, 2009.<ref name="evals">[https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/string-evaluation-completion-2014-02-19-en ICANN.org - IDN Fast Track Completed String Evaluations]</ref> The first IDN requests, from Egypt, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, were approved in January 2010.<ref>[https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2010-01-21-en ICANN.org - First IDN ccTLD Requests Successfully Pass String Evaluation], January 21, 2010</ref>

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.<ref name="icann" /> As of March 2021, a total of seventy strings (including requested variant strings for a specific country) have passed through the process.<ref name="evals" /> India accounts for fifteen IDNs, representing four languages in fifteen scripts.<ref>Specific alphabetical link to ICANN's [https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/string-evaluation-completion-2014-02-19-en#i table] of successful requests</ref>

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.<ref name="icann" /> As of March 2021, a total of seventy strings (including requested variant strings for a specific country) have passed through the process.<ref name="evals" /> India accounts for fifteen IDNs, representing four languages in fifteen scripts.<ref>Specific alphabetical link to ICANN's [https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/string-evaluation-completion-2014-02-19-en#i table] of successful requests</ref>

==References==

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