At the 50th ICANN conference now taking place in London, Technical Services Director Francisco Arias and Senior Manager Edward Lewis presented a report on the first results of TLD Universal Acceptance. They described the history of the issue, the major tasks of the corporation and new registrars, and the difficulties facing new domain administrators.
The experts paid special attention to IDN domains and their emails. They noted that ICANN did a great deal in the past in cooperation with international software providers and Internet platforms to adapt part of their products to IDM for major Internet players. However, they underscored a number of outstanding problems, such as the inability of browsers to identify certain new domains, a lack of support for non-Latin emails, and poor international coordination in this area.
Andrei Kolesnikov, CEO of Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ, said: “The lack of emails based on national alphabets, differing from the Latin alphabet, is the main obstacle facing the broad introduction of IDN domains. Experience with the .РФ domain shows that domains in native tongues are in great demand. We are sure that their potential is far from being exhausted and we expect a second wave of domain .РФ growth when it becomes possible to create Cyrillic addresses.”
Arias and Lewis presented a roadmap drafted by leading domain players together with ICANN and announced their readiness to accept feedback.
All interested individuals and parties will be able to make their proposals regarding the document that will be reviewed and adopted in its final version.
