Name: 2026 Round: 2026 Round Internationalized Domain Name and Variant Applicant Journeys with Q & A
Start: 2026-03-08T16:30:00+0530
End: 2026-03-08T17:30:00+0530

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2026 Round: 2026 Round Internationalized Domain Name and Variant Applicant Journeys with Q & A

Sunday March 8, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm IST

Jasmine Hall 1A (Secondary Ballroom/Brd Wrkshp)

16:30 IST (UTC+5.5), 8 March 2026
11:00 UTC, 8 March 2026
Jasmine Hall 1A (Secondary Ballroom/Brd Wrkshp)
ID# 17722

Session Details
This session will provide an overview of the unique Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) and variant applicant journeys in the New gTLD Program: 2026 Round. It will focus on question sets, conditional evaluations and fees, processing priority, and other processes unique to IDN and variant gTLD applications and includes live Q&A.

Session Leader: Kristy Buckley
Staff Facilitator: Sarmad Hussain

Session Recordings
Zoom Archive
English audio archive

Facilitators

Kristy Buckley

ICANN Org

Sarmad Hussain

Senior Director, IDN and UA Programs, ICANN Org

Sarmad Hussain is with ICANN’s Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Universal Acceptance (UA) Programs. Earlier, Sarmad was a professor of Computer Science and held the IDRC Chair position in Multilingual Computing. His research has focused on developing computing solutions... Read More →

IDN and Variant Applicant Journeys pdf

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Sunday March 8, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm IST
Jasmine Hall 1A (Secondary Ballroom/Brd Wrkshp) ICANN 85 - Community Forum - Mumbai

Capacity Building / Training, Public Session

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Kristy Buckley

Sarmad Hussain

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ICANN85 | Community Forum Mumbai

Kristy Buckley

Sarmad Hussain

Attendees (218)

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