ICANN Formalizes Relationship with Singapore's ccTLD Manager – Domain Name News, The Domain Industry News, ICANN News, Registry News, Domainer News, Domain

Thursday, 05 November 2009
The nonprofit responsible for the assignment of domain names and IP addresses has signed an agreement with the organization that manages the .SG country code top level domain, Singapore Network Information Centre , which has just released its schedule for rolling out non-Latin TLDs.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (www.icann.org) announced on Tuesday that SGNIC had agreed to an accountability framework program, which states the obligations of a ccTLD manager and ICANN, as well as the dispute resolution and termination procedure. SGNIC will be honoring this commitment as it introduces Chinese script TLDs to the island nation, where Chinese form the ethnic majority.ICANN dropped a bombshell last week when it announced that it would allow Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters from start to finish. Along with Chinese, more than 20 languages such as Indian, Arabic and Japanese will be valid for domain names.
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