Iran’s Top-Level Domain Approved by ICANN, That is .IRAN in Non-Latin

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Iran’s Top-Level Domain Approved by ICANN, That is .IRAN in Non-Latin

By CircleID Reporter
October 15, 2010, 11:12 pm PDT Views: 25,809 Comments: 2

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced today its approval of non-Latin string evaluation of Iran. This approval will allow the availability of Iran’s top-level domain in its own native language, Persian, also known as Farsi (that is, the domain name .IRAN, in non-Latin characters).

According to ICANN, there are currently 33 requests for Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) country code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs) representing 22 languages out of which 18 countries/territories have so far been approved. Other countries that have also successfully passed this string evaluation by ICANN include: India, Republic of Korea, Syrian Arab Republic and Singapore.

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"Persian" is the correct name of the language. Behnam Esfahbod – Oct 15, 2010 11:23 PM

“Farsi” is not the correct name for the language. Please consider using “Persian” in the future.

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RE: "Persian" is the correct name of the language Admin – Oct 15, 2010 11:33 PM

Post updated. Thank you.

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