Editing Country code top-level domain (section)

==Internationalized ccTLDs==
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An [[internationalized country code top-level domain]] (IDN ccTLD) is a top-level domain with a specially encoded domain name that is displayed in an end user application, such as a [[web browser]], in its native language script or a non-alphabetic [[writing system]], such as [[Latin script]] (.us, .uk and .br), [[Indic script]] (.{{Lang|hi|भारत}}) and [[Korean script]] (.{{Lang|ko|한국}}), etc. IDN ccTLDs are an application of the [[internationalized domain name]] (IDN) system to top-level Internet domains assigned to countries, including the United Kingdom, or independent geographic regions.

ICANN started to accept applications for IDN ccTLDs in November 2009,<ref>{{cite press release|title=ICANN Bringing the Languages of the World to the Global Internet|date=30 October 2009|publisher=Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)|url=http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-30oct09-en.htm|access-date=30 October 2009|archive-date=1 November 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091101202322/http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-30oct09-en.htm|url-status=live|language=en}}</ref> and installed the first set into the Domain Names System in May 2010. The first set was a group of Arabic names for the countries of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. By May 2010, 21 countries had submitted applications to ICANN, representing 11 languages.<ref>{{cite news|title='Historic' day as first non-Latin web addresses go live|date=6 May 2010|website=[[BBC News]]|publisher=[[British Broadcasting Corporation]]|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10100108.stm|access-date=2010-05-07|archive-date=2010-06-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612121841/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10100108.stm|url-status=live|language=en}}</ref>

ICANN requires all potential international TLDs to use at least one letter that does not resemble a Latin letter, or have at least three letters, in an effort to avoid [[IDN homograph attack]]s. Nor shall the international domain name look like another domain name, even if they have different alphabets. Between Cyrillic and Greek alphabets, for example, this could happen.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}