ICANN Approves .IRAN (in Non-Latin)

penciling_in writes "CircleID reports that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced 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."

Comments

Dont do it

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you serious? This is the exact thing what we are fighting against and now we give terrorists their own ccTLD that allows them to hide behind weird non-latin characters?

Someone has to do something.

Re:Dont do it

[sourcerror]

ICANN haz non-latin domainz

Re:Show me the TLD

[MachDelta]

Here you go: .????

What the internet really needs

[Chuck Chunder]

Approval of Unicode 1F4A9 as a TLD

What injustice!

[Anonymous Coward]

I demand .AMERICA as a TLD.

You can't see it in Slashdot, but it's in 72 point font, bold and blinking.

Because America is that cool.

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was .censor taken ?

[unity100]

tho there are many contenders for that tld ...

Re:http://www.jerseys-2010.com

[Looce]

I believe you meant http://www.jerseys-2010.xn--mgba3a4fra/

Re:So?

[maxwell demon]

As a sovereign nation, Iran has the same rights to a top-level domain as any other nation, and in her official language now that it is possible

I didn't know that Iran is female. Does it need a burqa to cover the whole country , then?

Re:ICANN: Tower of Babel for the modern day?

[rockNme2349]

I mean, I don't want to be pompous and promote my own language, but it seems obvious if you look around and see what people are speaking everywhere. The world would be better off if everyone just learned French.