CcNSO Study Group on the Use of Names for Countries and Territories

The Study Group on the use of Country and Territory Names (“the Study Group”) was established by a resolution of the ccNSO Council on 8 December 2010. The Study Group was tasked with developing an overview of:

• the way in which the names of countries and territories are currently used within ICANN, be it in the form of policies, guidelines and/or procedures;
• the types of strings, relating to the names of countries and territories that currently used, orproposed to be used, as TLDs; and
• the issues that arise (or may arise) when current policies, guidelines and procedures are applied to these representations of country and territory names.

The Study Group is comprised of representatives from across the ICANN stakeholder community and conducted its work between May 2011 and June 2013.