IDN.IDN – History was made today

History was made today as the first three, non-Latin, IDN ccTLDs were made live.
Reports are flooding the IDN sector of the web, rejoicing in the advancements that are being made in the specified area.

Thanks to the hard work of so many contributors, these domains were made live this morning.

After being launched by being placed into the DNS root zone, an excited post was made on the ICANN blog by the Manager of Root Zone Services Kim Davies.

She writes: “The three new top-level domains are السعودية. (“Al-Saudiah”), امارات. ( “Emarat”) and مصر. (“Misr”).

All three are Arabic script domains, and will enable domain names written fully right-to-left.”

In a world where ASCII dictates what we can and cannot use, and a place where those who choose to use a language that is not supported are limited in options, this is a huge step towards building a true global community.

While there are some things that still need to be taken care of in regards to the new IDNs, Ms. Davies says that they are mostly just formalities.

Now that these ccTLDs are visible, the countries for which they are created for must now take the torch and begin the difficult process of integrating them into daily life.