Dear All,

ICANN announced the release of the Recommendations for Managing Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) Variant Top-Level Domains (TLDs) as a collection of six documents. These recommendations have been developed by the ICANN organization with community feedback received during the Public Comment period.

A.      IDN Variant TLD Implementation – Executive Summary [PDF, 70 KB]

B.      IDN Variant TLD Implementation – Motivation, Premises and Framework [PDF, 391 KB]

C.      IDN Variant TLD Implementation – Recommendations and Analysis [PDF, 382 KB]

D.      IDN Variant TLD Implementation – Rationale for RZ-LGR [PDF, 497 KB]

E.       IDN Variant TLD Implementation – Risks and their Mitigation [PDF, 230 KB]

F.       IDN Variant TLD Implementation – Appendices (A: Definitions, B: Use of ROID, C: Limiting Allocated Variant TLDs) [PDF, 530 KB]

Read more: https://www.icann.org/news/announcement-2019-02-05-en

I think, it may be useful knowledge for some members to read and be aware about this, as your inputs will be valuable while we deal with variants in future.

Thanks.

Ajay Data