Echoes from the 51st
public meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
(ICANN), which ended in Los Angeles, United States of America last weekend shows
that ICANN is considering the introduction of two-character in the new generic
Top Level Domain (gTLD) regime, reports DigitalSENSE Business
News.
It was also gathered by DigitalSENSE Business
News that with this development, ICANN officials would develop strategies
for the implementation of an efficient technique for the two-character domains,
which is expected to be reserved within the new gTLD registry agreement.
DigitalSENSE Business
News further gathered that following this anticipation, all two-character
ASCII labels would be withheld from registration or allocated to Registry
Operators at the second level within a given Top Level Domain (TLD).
Equally DigitalSENSE Business
News recalls that the American Standard Code for Information
Interchange (ASCII ); which is a character-encoding scheme originally
based on the English alphabet, and encodes 128 specified characters into 7-bit binary
integers.
ICANN sources disclosed to DigitalSENSE Business
News that such labels may not be activated in the Domain Name System (DNS)
outside the Registry Operator, provided that such two-character label strings
may be released to the extent that Registry Operator reaches agreement with the
related government and country-code manager of the string as specified in the
ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard.
DigitalSENSE Business
News, further gathered that the Registry Operator may also propose the
release of these reservations based on its implementation of measures to avoid
confusion with the corresponding country codes, subject to approval by ICANN.
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Pix: ICANN ceo, Mr. Fade Chehade during his opening speech @ICANN51
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