 | ICANN passes resolution to China’s IDN ccTLD applications
NAIROBI, Mar 13, 2010 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — The wrap-up meeting of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board passed a resolution to China’s IDN ccTLD applications, the Chinese delegation to the meeting has told Xinhua.
According to this resolution, ICANN president and CEO has been assigned to
| IDN News - Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 11:39 |
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| ICANN Head Visiting China After ‘dot-China’ Request
The head of the global Internet addressing authority will visit China this week, according to people briefed on the matter, highlighting questions about China’s Web censorship after it applied to offer domain names that end with Chinese characters.
Rod Beckstrom, CEO of the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Nam...
| IDN News - Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 11:0 |
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| Tina Dam: Community Support for IDN ccTLDs
One area of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process about which questions have arisen is community support for the IDN ccTLD and how such support can be demonstrated. I have provided some clarification here that I hope is helpful to present and future IDN ccTLD Fast Track participants.
None of this information replaces or changes the
| IDN News - Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 11:4 |
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| Bulgaria Decides to Register Cyrillic Domain ‘.бг’ (‘.bg’)
Bulgaria’s official Cyrillic domain name suffix is to be “.бг” (BG). An application for registration has been submitted to the world body that regulates domain names.
Parvan Rusinov, Deputy Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTITC) has announced on Thursday that the application had bee...
| IDN News - Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 10:59 |
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| Bangladesh formally applies for IDN
Dhaka Feb 21 (bdnews24.com) — Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has filed a formal application to the global internet body to include Bangla in Country Code Top Level Domain or ccTLD for a greater recognition of the language in the world community.
Watched by a minister and senior civil servants at her Hare Road home on Sunday,
| IDN News - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 5:12 |
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| Tina Dam: IDN TLDs pre-registrations, declined requests, etc
IDN TLDs: pre-registrations, declined requests, and other misconceptions
Recent statements and speculations have been made concerning the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process and related issues. People seem to be most concerned about:
• ICANN denying some countries/territories access to the Fast Track Process
• ICANN approving IDN ccTLDs
• T...
| IDN News - Saturday, February 6, 2010 - 0:37 |
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| Luxembourg launched 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 News - Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 4:48 |
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| Tina Dam: First 4 IDN ccTLDs through String Evaulation
The first four IDN ccTLD requests has just been announced as having completed the String Evaulation portion of the Fast Track Process.
These are associated with: Egypt, the Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia.
See the full announcement here: what does that mean?
It means that these may now initiate the String D...
| IDN News - Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 19:45 |
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| IDN ccTLD Fast Track String Evaluation Completion
The IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process was launched on 16 November 2009. As of that date eligible countries and territories were able to request their respective IDN ccTLD(s) through the process.
The process entails three steps: (i) Preparations in country/territory (ii) String Evaluation, and (iii) String Delegation.
All steps are descri...
| IDN News - Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 19:41 |
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| First IDN ccTLDs Requests Successfully Pass String Evaluation
ICANN is pleased to announce the successful completion of the IDN ccTLD Fast Track String Evaluation for four (4) proposed IDN ccTLDs. The requests are associated with: Egypt, the Russian Federation, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. Details of the successful evaluations are provided here.
The IDN (Internationalised Domain Name...
| IDN News - Saturday, January 23, 2010 - 18:35 |
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| Hong Kong to launch .香港 full Chinese IDN in 2010
HKIRC announced 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 the Internet community, and ultimately to sustain
| IDN News - Friday, January 15, 2010 - 13:37 |
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| Investors in Foreign Domain Names Quickly Multiply
Seeking Next Treasured .com Name Overseas
NEW YORK, New York, January 11, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — 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 a...
| IDN News - Tuesday, January 12, 2010 - 0:49 |
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| 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 announced ...
| IDN News - Monday, January 11, 2010 - 10:34 |
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| DNS-Luxembourg 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 News - Saturday, January 9, 2010 - 9:47 |
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| SGNIC Launched Chinese IDNs in Singapore
Businesses and consumers can look forward to using Chinese characters in their website address to better reach their customers or friends who prefer Chinese web addresses. The Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC), the national registry for domain names.
This opens up new options for domain names, as anyone can soon register ...
| IDN News - Friday, January 8, 2010 - 6:43 |
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| IDN Scaremongering: Mashable and Times Online Screw Up
Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) might be a slightly "hot" topic at the moment following on from ICANN's launch of the IDN country code Top-Level Domain (ccTLD) program recently.
However, IDNs are NOT a new topic.
Far from it.
They've been around for quite some time.
Unfortunately neither The Times Online or Mashable see...
| IDN News - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 23:10 |
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| Tunisia: upcoming launch of internet domain names in Arabic
TUNISIAONLINENEWS- 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.
Following Egypt’s application for a doma...
| IDN News - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 22:34 |
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| IPv6 and the IDNs
Luxembourg, January 5th 2010 – The Luxembourg IPv6 Council has followed closely the introduction of Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), especially the recent launch of the .eu IDN in December 2009.
The introduction of IDN will require more IP address space which is no more guaranteed by the remaining 10% of the IPv4 address pool e...
| IDN News - Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 21:51 |
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| 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 News - Sunday, December 20, 2009 - 23:21 |
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| IDN Sales Nov 2009
Few IDN Sales (above $1000) which gone public in November 2009
Kö.de $7,950 / Sedo
Öv.de $3,675 / Sedo
もしもし.com $3,188 Hello in Japanese / Afternic
高崎.com $2,904 Takasaki Geo Japanese / Afternic
Küchengeräte.org $2,693 Kitchen Appliances in German / Sedo
вода.com $2,000 Water in Rusian / IDNNewsletter
möbel-profi.de $1,650 Furniture...
| IDN News - Monday, December 14, 2009 - 10:6 |
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