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ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, announced that the application for an IDN top-level domain (TLD) for Ukraine had passed the second of three approval stages on March 1. The application process is divided into three phases: 1. Preparation, 2. Record string evaluation, and 3. Record string approval.
The Ukrainian application passed its first stage at the annual ICANN meeting in Seoul, South Korea, on October 30, 2009. The Ukrainian Council for International Domain Names (USIC) then triumphantly announced that ICANN had approved the allocation of the .УКР top-level domain record to the country in the first reading. Domain industry experts then expressed their doubts about approving the Cyrillic IDN domain for Ukraine in this particular spelling, since the combination of letters.ukrto the point of confusion, the graphic similarity to the Latin letter combination.ykp, which contradicts the rules defined by the ICANN corporation itself.
It's unclear how the Ukrainians managed to convince the organization's leadership to violate its own rules. Just recently, ICANN denied the Bulgarians' request to delegate the zone..bgdue to its similarity with the Brazilian domain zone.brFor the same reason, the Russian Federation eventually received the domain.рфinstead of a domain.ru, which would resemble the national domain zone of Paraguay.py.
It was assumed that ICANN, by approving the Ukrainian application in the first reading, would force our country's application committee to reconsider the entry string itself and select at least one character in the domain name that is not in the Latin alphabet. Among the ideas were.уї And .уєThe latter seemed preferable, as it used a letter that does not have a similar graphic representation in the Latin alphabet or other languages using the Cyrillic alphabet. Nevertheless, ICANN still approved the spelling in the second stage..ukrAnd in the program for delegating new IDN zones, Ukraine became the second country with a three-letter domain written in Cyrillic.
Earlier, Serbia's application for the domain managed to pass the second stage..srbUkraine became the 25th country whose IDN ccTLD was approved by ICANN, and.ukrbecame the 35th IDN zone on the global Internet. In Punicode transcription, the domain.ukrlooks like.xn--j1amh.
