ICANN Approves .IRAN (in Non-Latin)

Posted by timothy on Friday October 15, 2010 @03:12PM 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."

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Re:Show me the TLD by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-15 15:34 · 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.
The ccTLDs in question by Looce · 2010-10-15 15:43 · 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.