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ICANN

abbr.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
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ICANN

(ˈaɪkæn)
acronym for
(Communications & Information) Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
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TRA said the Sultanate has passed the string evaluation process of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which is required to launch the IDN in Arabic language.
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) wanted to include terrorism screening to weed out internet threats but following complaints by Icann advisory committee member Khalid Fattal, a Syrian native, the organisation declined.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) coordinates these unique identifiers across the world.
The internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) effectively broke the Latin alphabet's three-decade hold on internet domain names.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) voted at its annual meeting to allow scripts, including Arabic, Chinese, Korean, and other non-Latin languages, in Internet addresses for the first time in an attempt to make the web more accessible to the world.
Summary: With a view to making the internet more accessible around the world, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has opened the domain application process to non-Latin characters for website addresses with its inclusion of internationalised domain names.
Summary: The body in charge of assigning the world's Internet users their online addresses on Friday said it had agreed to allow the use of any of the world's scripts, no longer just the Latin alphabet.AaThe Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which approved the change at a meeting in Seoul, said in a statement it could lead to a dramatic rise in the number of Internet users.
ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation responsible for managing Internet domain names.
Department of Commerce must love the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, because it is setting it free.
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