ICANN Approves ‘.გე’ Web Addresses

Through the decision of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Georgia has officially been given the right to write web addresses in Georgian by means of the modern alphabet (Mkhedruli), allowing for local web addresses to end with ‘.გე’ (.ge).

The “.ge” domains coordinator, IT Development Center will hold a press-conference at 14:00 on January 20 in Tbilisi Marriot at which the procedures carried out by Georgia before the privilege was granted will be presented.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a US based non-profit organization, created in 1998, that is responsible for coordinating the maintenance and methodologies of databases, with unique identifiers, related to the namespaces of the Internet in order to ensure the network’s stable and secure operation.

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