ICANN to Test IDNs

ICANN is going to test Internationalized Domain Names. These domain names can contain non-ASCII scripts, including Arabic and Chinese.

ICANN is going to test Internationalized Domain Names. These domain names can contain non-ASCII scripts, including Arabic and Chinese.

ICANN has appointed a committee which will plan out a technical test of internationalized domain names, using non-Roman characters and non-ASCII scripts.

The test will include two approaches:

1. DNAME records: DNAME records will use pseudo domain names for an entire domain by mapping a new domain into an already existing one.
2. NS-records: NS-records will include an internationalized label into the root zone.

“The internationalization of the Internet’s domain name system must be accomplished through standards that are open, non-proprietary, and fully compatible with the Internet’s existing end-to-end model and that preserve globally unique naming in a universally resolvable public name space.”
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