What are IDNs? Don’t know what IDNs are? Don’t see why international domain names are needed?
Just saw this great video produced by ICANN for the first time. A great introduction by ICANN as to what IDNs are and why they are so important.
IDN Focus - Friday, January 22, 2010 - 2:28
What are IDNs? Don’t know what IDNs are? Don’t see why international domain names are needed?
Just saw this great video produced by ICANN for the first time. A great introduction by ICANN as to what IDNs are and why they are so important.
IDN Focus - Friday, January 22, 2010 - 2:28
What are IDNs? Don’t know what IDNs are? Don’t see why international domain names are needed?
Just saw this great video produced by ICANN for the first time. A great introduction by ICANN as to what IDNs are and why they are so important.
IDN Focus - Friday, January 22, 2010 - 2:28
What are IDNs? Don’t know what IDNs are? Don’t see why international domain names are needed?
Just saw this great video produced by ICANN for the first time. A great introduction by ICANN as to what IDNs are and why they are so important.
IDN Focus - Friday, January 22, 2010 - 2:28
What are IDNs? Don’t know what IDNs are? Don’t see why international domain names are needed?
Just saw this great video produced by ICANN for the first time. A great introduction by ICANN as to what IDNs are and why they are so important.
IDN Focus - Friday, January 22, 2010 - 2:28
ICANN Approves the String .امارات as the Official Arabic Top Level Domain for UAE The Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) has yet to register another millstone with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN’s) approval of the string (.emarat) (.امارات) as the official Arabic top level domain for the United Arab Emirates. The announcement made by ICANN came after TRA announced the use...
IDN Focus - Friday, January 22, 2010 - 2:14
ICANN Approves the String .امارات as the Official Arabic Top Level Domain for UAE The Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) has yet to register another millstone with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers’ (ICANN’s) approval of the string (.emarat) (.امارات) as the official Arabic top level domain for the United Arab Emirates. The announcement made by ICANN came after TRA announced the use...
IDN Focus - Friday, January 22, 2010 - 2:14
Chinese domain names (IDN.cn) could number 1 million by the end of 2010 2010: Prediction for the coming year – Chinese domain industry
A list of 10 predictions made by Chinese netizens about what 2010 holds for the Chinese domaining industry.
1, Total .cn domain name registrations will likely reduce in numbers by year-end to less than 10 million
2, Chinese domain names “.中国” registrati...
IDN Focus - Friday, January 22, 2010 - 2:0
Chinese domain names (IDN.cn) could number 1 million by the end of 2010 2010: Prediction for the coming year – Chinese domain industry
A list of 10 predictions made by Chinese netizens about what 2010 holds for the Chinese domaining industry.
1, Total .cn domain name registrations will likely reduce in numbers by year-end to less than 10 million
2, Chinese domain names “.中国” registrati...
IDN Focus - Friday, January 22, 2010 - 2:0
IDN .Tel Domain Names Coming Soon Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved Telnic’s request to offer internationalized domain names on .tel. .Tel registry Telnic made the request to offer IDNs on December 2, and ICANN Chief gTLD Registry Liaison Craig Schwartz notified Telnic of approval today via letter.
By offering IDN domain names, users wi...
IDN Focus - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 1:20
IDN .Tel Domain Names Coming Soon Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved Telnic’s request to offer internationalized domain names on .tel. .Tel registry Telnic made the request to offer IDNs on December 2, and ICANN Chief gTLD Registry Liaison Craig Schwartz notified Telnic of approval today via letter.
By offering IDN domain names, users wi...
IDN Focus - Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 1:20
Bulgaria ‘battles’ Brazil for Cyrillic BG domain name
The characters “.bg” and “.bgr” are the most popular for Bulgaria’s national internet address in Cyrillic, according to the results of an online poll conducted by the Ministry of Transport, Information Technologies and Communications (MTITC) in December 2009.
Parvan Rusinov, Deputy Minister, has announ...
IDN Focus - Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 0:52
DNS-LU announces the opening of IDNs As of February 1st 2010 registration of domain names with special characters in them, like for example a letter with an accent, called Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) .lu will be possible. Acceptable special caracters are those communly used in Luxembourgish, German and French languages.
There will be a two months sunrise perio...
IDN Focus - Monday, January 11, 2010 - 0:48
Investors in foreign domain names quickly multiply Domain name investors, having exhausted most of the possibilities in the U.S. are now heading overseas to stake their claims to as-yet unused domain categories. And language is not a barrier. With the Internet a truly global tool, not only are domain names in Japanese characters (i.e. [Japanese].com) now available to register, but ac...
IDN Focus - Monday, January 11, 2010 - 0:25
HKIRC to launch ‘.香港’ full Chinese domain name in 2010 Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Ltd (HKIRC) announced today that ‘.香港’ registrations will be offered free to all ‘.hk’ customers in the second half of 2010 with the aim of helping them develop their sites with full Chinese domain names. This is to increase the popularity of Chinese domain names and to maximize benefits to
IDN Focus - Monday, December 21, 2009 - 1:23
HKIRC to launch ‘.香港’ full Chinese domain name in 2010 Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Ltd (HKIRC) announced today that ‘.香港’ registrations will be offered free to all ‘.hk’ customers in the second half of 2010 with the aim of helping them develop their sites with full Chinese domain names. This is to increase the popularity of Chinese domain names and to maximize benefits to
IDN Focus - Monday, December 21, 2009 - 1:23
DotAsia Publishes Draft IDN Launch Policies Pinyin, Romaji and Romanized Domains could get Priority to Register in IDN
December 15, 2009 — Hong Kong — Following the announcement on November 18, 2009 ( DotAsia today published a draft of the IDN launch policies for discussion. The policies will be finalized after the Kuala Lumpur APRICOT meetings in February 2010, ...
IDN Focus - Monday, December 14, 2009 - 23:42
SGNIC announces the launch of Chinese Domain Names On 3 November 2009, SGNIC announced the launch of Chinese Domain Names (CDNs). The launch will take place in the following phases:
Phase #1: Government Applications 23 Nov 2009 – 31 Dec 2009
Phase #2: Trademark Owners Applications 7 Jan 2010 – 18 Feb 2010
Sunrise: 25 Mar 2010 – 6 May 2010
General Launch: 10 June 201...
IDN Focus - Monday, November 2, 2009 - 15:49
Online advertisement using a Chinese IDN An advertisement using a Chinese IDN: 沐舒坦.cn (translates to Ambroxol) recently seen on Sina.com. Advertisement is for pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim.
IDN Focus - Saturday, September 12, 2009 - 1:34
IDN.eu available from December 10th EURid has announced that .eu will support internationalised domain names (IDNs) starting from the 10th of December.
Marc Van Wesemael, EURid General Manager commented “IDNs are particularly important for .eu”
“EURid supports all twenty-three official EU languages, and our employees come from twenty of the twenty-seven Member States....
