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ICANN Approves .IRAN (in Non-Latin)

Posted by timothy on from the but-shouldn't-we-all-be-able-to-read-it dept.

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."

3 of 148 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Show me the TLD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's here:

    http://icann.org/en/topics/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion-i-en.htm#ir

    No image, though. You will need a browser that supports the characters.

  2. The ccTLDs in question by Looce · · Score: 4, Informative

    Iran, Islamic Republic of. ccTLDs: xn--mgba3a4f16a, xn--mgba3a4fra.

    The Unicode whitelist on Slashdot is preventing us from having the Farsi reading, so see here.

  3. Re:Why not .arabic? by tonique · · Score: 2, Informative

    FYI: Persian alphabet is derived from, and looks similar to, the Arabic script but the written languages are certainly distinguishable. Being able to distinguish might require some expertise -- I can't do it anyway. Also, the Persian (or Perso-Arabic) script is used by many other languages.

    Wikipedia knows these things:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perso-Arabic_script
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet