Board Opens Way for New Top-Level Domains
ICANN has adopted a system called Punycode to encode TLDs written using Unicode characters into a sequence of letters, digits and hyphens, allowing them to be stored by existing DNS servers, but there are still some questions that remain to be resolved, a process that could take years.
The fast-track process approved Thursday sets out a way for countries where the official language is written using a non-Latin script (such as Cyrillic, Arabic or Chinese) to create a new TLD consisting of the country's name written in that script.
The board also approved actions to clamp down on domain name tasting, proposed by ICANN's Generic Names Supporting Organization, and to add support for DNSsec (DNS Security Extensions) to the .org domain, a decision which should increase confidence in the results returned by DNS servers for the .org TLD.
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