Approved ccTLD String for Greece by ICANN

A new ccTLD string was announced to have been approved for Greece by ICANN, on the occasion of their official meeting in Seoul, after undergoing through the evaluation process requested in such cases. There are other countries who have been submitting similar requests, since 16th November 2009, following the rule that the territory name has to be of a script other than Latin. Apart from this, it is necessary that the IDN ccTLDs languages should be official in that respective country and there are some technical parameters that need to be met.

Anyone interested in learning about the evaluation process can access the following link:www.icann.org/en/resources/idn/fast-track/string-evaluation-completion

Regarding the necessary steps, there are three of them in order to obtain approval:

1.      The requester has to prepare all the documentation and reach consensus within the local community and then submit the application athttp://forms.icann.org/idn/apply.php

2.      An evaluation of requests from a technical and linguistic point of view has to be performed.

3.      The successful requests then are submitted to the following email address:
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So far there is a number of 37 countries who have been evaluated positively, out of which 29 of them received delegation within the DNS root system. ICANN promises to make domains in non-Latin country code available as soon as they pass the evaluation process via the Fast Track Process. An email address for customer support is offered, too:
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