پاکستان.
پاکستان. is the IDN ccTLD for Pakistan. It is managed by the National Telecommunication Corporation.[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 25 October 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 7 January 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 3 June 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]