ICANN approves two new TLDs, including THAT one
ICANN’s board of directors has given the nod to two more country-code TLDs.
The eight-year-old nation of South Sudan is finally getting its possibly controversial .ss, while Mauritania is getting the Arabic-script version of its name, موريتانيا. (.xn--mgbah1a3hjkrd), to complement its existing .mr ccTLD.
Both TLDs were approved by ICANN after going through the usual, secretive IANA process, at its board meeting at the weekend.
The recipient of موريتانيا. is the Université de Nouakchott Al Aasriya, while .ss is going to National Communication Authority, a governmental agency.
As previously noted, .ss has the potential to be controversial due to its Nazi associations, and the fact that Nazis are precisely the kind of people who have trouble finding TLDs that will allow them to register names.
But none of that is ICANN’s business. It simply checks to make sure the requester has the support of the local internet community and that the string is on the ISO 3166 list.
The Mauritanian IDN has already been added to the DNS root, while .ss has not.
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